librettist

noun

Definition of librettistnext
as in lyricist

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Recent Examples of librettist The following year, her suspicions proved correct, when Olson showed up on behalf of her then-husband, the lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, nominated for 1951’s An American in Paris. — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025 That anniversary is also invoked by new contemporary opera from librettist Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner that ecounts the era of wrongful imprisonment via one Southern California family. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025 In the decades since his solo debut, Holmes has also become a multiple Tony Award-winning librettist and composer, as well as a New York Times bestselling author. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025 Advertisement *** Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965. — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
  1. lyricist
  2. composer
  3. poet
  4. muse
  5. poetaster
  6. versifier
Noun
  • Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz will host two events at the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest, which is returning for a third year at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 5-6.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz adapted the musical for the screen.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of lyricist
Noun
  • The collection also pays tribute to late French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, with a commemorative concert marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, and also features the first live concert at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral following its reopening last year.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Anastasio’s enthusiasm for Bernstein is based, in part, on the composer’s ability to effectively wed classical theory with popular song.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Definition of composer
Noun
  • Special awards will go to Pico Iyer, Emily Witt and poet Amanda Gorman.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The semi-fictitious play, set during the Harlem Renaissance, sees educator and historian W.E.B. Du Bois play matchmaker for his daughter Yolande and esteemed poet Countee Cullen.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
Definition of poet
Noun
  • In theaters July 11 22 of 31 Eddington Midsommar director Ari Aster, his muse Joaquin Phoenix and A24.
    — Jack Smart, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Reunited with his muse, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners is Coogler at his most free.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 18 Apr. 2025
Definition of muse
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Definition of poetaster
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    — Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Definition of versifier

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