What is "librettist"

Usage examples of "librettist".

He swam along gayly and contentedly on the careless current of life as it was lived in Vienna and elsewhere in the closing decades of the eighteenth century, and was not averse, merely for the fun of the thing, to go even a step beyond his librettist when the chance offered.

As was his custom, he drafted a plan of the work, and this he sent to Piave, who for a long time had been his librettist in ordinary.

For this he was in part indebted to his librettist, the distinguished poet and composer, Signor Arrigo Boito.

Scribe of the eighteenth century, the poet and opera librettist, Metastasio.

He appears to have started on the work with great reluctance and with considerable distrust of his own powers, but once fairly committed to the undertaking he entered into it with something of his old animation, disputing so manfully with his librettist over certain points in the text that a serious rupture between the two was at one time imminent.

Eliot liked at least three of the poems, but posterity is beginning to find his taste unsure, especially since he too, like Enderby, became the librettist for a Broadway musical.

There was no holding the inspired Librettist and the talented young Composer.

French librettist has contrived to extract from it the most ridiculous farrago of nonsense.

This was hardly tactful and incompatibilities of temperament between composer and librettist were becoming evident.

Composer and librettist endowed it with all the shimmer of super-civilized Vienna.

Why, I said to them, should I leave this beautiful city to throw myself into the arms of a mad librettist, who desires my blood simply because he cannot write?

Although he a primarily a poet, ROBERT GRAVES in over forty years of writing has also made distinguished contributions as a novelist, critic, translator, essayist, scholar, historian, lecturer and librettist, Born in London in 1895, Mr.

He, too, liked the idea of the opera, and the librettists went to work.

The French librettists, while they emptied the character of much of its poetical contents, nevertheless made it in a sense more gentle, and Gounod refined it still more by breathing an ecstasy into all of its music.

Indeed, the bond ought to be closer, for one man wrote books and music as well of the Grail dramas, whereas different librettists and different composers created the Figaro comedies.