Examples of librettist in a Sentence
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The work by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek premiered in 2016 at Opera Philadelphia, with Duffy in the lead role as Bess.
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Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
Especially important is the perspective of a Black woman as librettist, which has been rare across the art form overall, said Bakari, who splits time between New York and Seattle.
—The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
David Cote, the librettist, and Robin Guarino, the director and dramaturge, had interviewed the exonerees and had made the opera based on the transcripts; Cote said that about forty per cent of the libretto is taken from them verbatim.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
After a standing ovation, Jackson, Smith, some of the performers, the director, the librettist, the composer, the conductor, and Godsey came back onstage and answered questions.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Rather than dig into humanity for material, composer Elizabeth Gartman and librettist Melisa Tien dispose of it altogether, opting instead for a world populated by humanistic petrochemicals and tenacious microorganisms.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
Anaïs Mitchell, its composer and librettist, calls her this too, as DiFranco discovered during a recent publicity event.
—Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
The 2019 mariachi opera by Mexican composer and bandleader Javier Martínez and librettist Leonard Foglia drew a capacity crowd of both San Diego Opera’s regular, mostly White and older season-ticket holders and a large number of Mexican and Mexican American ticketholders of all ages.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
Off Broadway Jerome Weidman and the composer Harold Rome’s garment-district musical, from 1962—thoughtfully reshaped by Weidman’s librettist son, John, and directed by Trip Cullman—feels like being walloped by a roll of velvet.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
Especially important is the perspective of a Black woman as librettist, which has been rare across the art form overall, said Bakari, who splits time between New York and Seattle.
—The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
David Cote, the librettist, and Robin Guarino, the director and dramaturge, had interviewed the exonerees and had made the opera based on the transcripts; Cote said that about forty per cent of the libretto is taken from them verbatim.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
After a standing ovation, Jackson, Smith, some of the performers, the director, the librettist, the composer, the conductor, and Godsey came back onstage and answered questions.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Rather than dig into humanity for material, composer Elizabeth Gartman and librettist Melisa Tien dispose of it altogether, opting instead for a world populated by humanistic petrochemicals and tenacious microorganisms.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
Anaïs Mitchell, its composer and librettist, calls her this too, as DiFranco discovered during a recent publicity event.
—Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
The 2019 mariachi opera by Mexican composer and bandleader Javier Martínez and librettist Leonard Foglia drew a capacity crowd of both San Diego Opera’s regular, mostly White and older season-ticket holders and a large number of Mexican and Mexican American ticketholders of all ages.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
Off Broadway Jerome Weidman and the composer Harold Rome’s garment-district musical, from 1962—thoughtfully reshaped by Weidman’s librettist son, John, and directed by Trip Cullman—feels like being walloped by a roll of velvet.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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1862, in the meaning defined above
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librettist
noun
li·bret·tist
lə-ˈbret-əst 
: the writer of a libretto
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