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How to pronounce librettist in English?

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Type Words
Type of author, writer
Derivation libretto

Examples of librettist

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Britten and his librettist, Montagu Slater, softened the character considerably.
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But the librettist is always saddled with words, and an opera must have a story.
From the guardian.co.uk
The stage director, once a traffic cop, has become in effect a second librettist.
From the time.com
The composer who employs himself as a librettist has a fool for a collaborator.
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The lyricist of traditional musical forms such as Opera is known as a librettist.
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It was the grandmother of one of librettist and lyricist Brian Yorkey's colleagues.
From the sfgate.com
Casanova was a friend of Mozart's librettist, the Venetian Lorenzo da Ponte.
From the independent.co.uk
Many considered him the greatest Italian librettist of his time after Boito.
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The opera was in German, although the librettist, Jerzy Jarocki, was Polish.
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More examples
  • Author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
  • (libretto) the words of an opera or musical play
  • A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata.
  • (Libretto (notebook)) The Libretto is a line of subnotebook computers designed and produced by Toshiba. The line was distinguished by its combination of functionality and small size, squeezing a full Windows PC into a device the size of a hardback book. ...
  • The person who writes a libretto
  • (Libretto) text of an opera or sometimes of an oratorio
  • (Libretto) From the Italian for 'little book'' a useful reminder to the concert-goer to bring along a good book in case the performance is dead boring.
  • (Libretto) The lyrics to a musical. Often includes some "connective tissue" that explains what happens between the songs. See also Book.
  • (Libretto) The part of a musical score containing the sung and spoken words.