librettist
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The better choice is Mr. Adams’s first opera, “Nixon in China,” a collaboration with the librettist Alice Goodman and the director Peter Sellars that had its premiere, in Houston, in 1987.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
"Fire Shut Up in My Bones," the work of jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and writer-director Kasi Lemmons, was the first opera by a Black composer or librettist to reach the Met stage.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
From this kernel, Saariaho and her librettist, Finnish novelist Sofi Oksanen, developed the scenario, which has 13 singing or speaking roles: seven at the school and six at the wedding banquet.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
He, too, had come in for some of the applause, a sort of inverted glory which like a frosty nimbus envelopes the head of the librettist.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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