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Recent Examples of librettist
The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
With the family’s slow but sure Act 2 revival, librettist Lindsey Ferrentino comes into her own.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
With the family’s slow but sure Act 2 revival, librettist Lindsey Ferrentino comes into her own.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
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The profound influence on musical theater of lyricist and composer Jonathan Larson, creator of Rent and Tick, Tick, Boom, and Larson’s impact on those who have followed him will be the focus of a program debuting in New York this weekend.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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For this collaboration with Colombian lyricist Nanpa Básico, Ivy sings over hypnotizing Afrobeats about an undeniable energy between two people who are just finding their perfect rhythm.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
28 Feb. 2025
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What to expect: Charlotte Symphony will perform work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams in a 360-degree spatial audio experience.—
Laura Barrero,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Foster, 75, is a 16-time Grammy-winning composer and producer who has worked with Celine Dion, Michael Bublé, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, and many others.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2025
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Interestingly, many of the elementary schools built here from 1886-1891 were named for poets, including John Greenleaf Whittier.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2025
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Returning to these communities’ intimate relationship with sand can provide a powerful new perspective on urban development, according to poet and literary critic Joanne Leow.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Mar. 2025
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Riccardo Audio and Yago Goicoechea tell us about their S/S '25 muse, Maggie Maurer, the milestone anniversary, and the art of making an entrance.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love In the period drama Shakespeare in Love, Gwyneth Paltrow plays the muse and lover of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes).—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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