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librettist

noun as in playwright

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Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Without applying to another librettist, he began to search for a ready-made text.

The librettist now having need of his services for the finale, Daland enters, and the act winds up with a showy trio.

There are the verses, exclaimed the librettist; I wrote them in an hour.

He proposed as a good subject, "Alexander and Roxane," and set a librettist to work at the adaptation of it.

In operatic work the librettist and composer must work hand in hand.

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On this page you'll find 139 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to librettist, such as: author, dramatist, scenarist, tragedian, writer, and dramaturge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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