How To Use Librettist In A Sentence
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It was the end of her promising career as a librettist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of his new handle "librettist," Shanley told Playbill Radio, "It's a really interesting job and it's a really interesting art form.
Playbill.com : News
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More, too often, both Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal seem to be coasting on automatic pilot.
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And that defeats librettist da Ponte's careful working of class divisions within a single manorial household.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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As a librettist, McClatchy has often done adaptations, working with Ned Rorem on Wilder's Our Town also a Jacobs School production and on The Magic Flute.
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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Mozart's librettist for Figaro was himself a controversial and colourful character.
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The musician and the librettist were collaborators.
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‘Librettists of that period would know very little about music, choreography or costume design,’ she added.
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GO: Yes - the librettist is my brother, Ruben Ortiz.
Opera Today
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In "The Scottsboro Boys," Messrs. Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004 while writing the musical) and David Thompson, the show's librettist, have compressed this complicated sequence of events into a lengthy one-act musical that makes use of all the theatrical conventions of the old-fashioned blackface minstrel shows that were popular well into the 20th century.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn
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Rands has found an ideal partner in J.D. McClatchey, a renowned poet with a strong if somewhat melancholy voice, but who as a librettist has used his command of language to select and render fit for musical setting the texts of others he is not the editor of the Yale Review for nothing!
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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Handel or his librettist found the story in Plutarch's chronicles of Roman notabilities, which had been magnificently Englished, in the 17th century, by Sir Thomas North.
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Brooks works closely with collaborators, such as librettist Thomas Meehan and director-choreographer Susan Stroman, much like author Mary Shelley, whose 1818 gothic novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, came out of a ghost-story writing contest with Lord Byron and other 19th-century intellectuals.
A Monster Classic
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To be present at Indiana University for the world premiere of Vincent, a powerfully affecting opera by composer Bernard Rands and librettist J. D. McClatchy, is to remember again why Wagner insisted that "the highest perfection is reserved for the musically arranged drama.
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist.
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So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
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The tradition theme was invented for the Broadway stage version by an American librettist, and brilliantly musicalised by an American composer and lyricist.
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Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare.
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The performances were somewhat overshadowed by a certain coolness between composer and librettist.
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Rational Review
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With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
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the musician and the librettist were collaborators
