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lɪˈbrɛt ɪstli·bret·tist
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Princeton's WordNet
librettistnoun
author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
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librettistnoun
The person who writes a libretto.
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librettist
A librettist is a person who writes the script, dialogue, or lyrics for a dramatic musical work such as an opera, musical theatre, oratorio, cantata, or ballet. This includes the story, characters, and spoken words as well as the words that are sung.
Webster Dictionary
Librettistnoun
one who makes a libretto
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Librettist
A librettist is the author of a libretto (It.: small book), the text of a vocal work, particularly opera or oratorio. Among the notorious librettists have been Pietro Metastasio, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Eugene Scribe, Felice Romani, Francesco Maria Piave, Luigi Illica, Arrigo Boito, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Some composers wrote libretti for themselves or for other composers, for example Richard Wagner, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Frederick Delius, Michael Tippet, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Gian Carlo Menotti who wrote two libretti for Samuel Barber's operas; others adapted plays for their own use, most notably Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg. There are also librettists among the famous writers: Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Carlo Goldoni, Aleksandr Pushkin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Stefan Zweig. And here are some people one would not expect as librettists: Frederick II of Prussia (the Great), Catherine II of Russia, Pope Clement IX, and Franco Zeffirelli.
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The numerical value of librettist in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
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The numerical value of librettist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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