librettist
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Despite the audience booing at the 1853 premiere, which Verdi and his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, called “a fiasco,” “Traviata” has never strayed long from the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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
Of its immense success widow and librettist were in no doubt.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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