Librettists

Word LIBRETTISTS
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What do we mean by librettists?

The person who writes a libretto.

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ANNUAL "PAGE-TO-STAGE" READINGS, more than 25 area theater companies hold readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional and national playwrights, librettists and composers. 2-10 p.m. Saturday-Monday, Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The boy-man in Elf, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, is 30-year-old Buddy (Sebastian Arcelus), whom librettists Tom (Annie, The Producers) Meehan and Bob (The Drowsy Chaperone) Martin have catapulted to the stage from screenwriter David Berenbaum's 2003 movie of the same name. ❋ David Finkle (2010)

Its second failing is the libretto, by a pair of jobbing librettists who, when they heard the score, apologized to Bizet "for not giving him one of their best efforts," as George Hall writes in the program notes for the English National Opera's superb new production. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The librettists, Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, smoothed Shakespeare into operatic shape: There's a conventional love duet for Hamlet and Ophélie in Act I, and Hamlet overhears Polonius (who otherwise has little to do) admitting his complicity in the murder plot. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)

At the time, Walker was conducting Handel's "Acis and Galatea" for Opera Australia -- for which Pope had been one of the librettists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But for all its manic, modern undercurrents, the opera was still set by its librettists in the kind of German village Goethe visited in 1772. ❋ David Littlejohn (2010)

The Metropolitan Opera's ongoing commissioning program, announced in 2006, amounts to giving seed money to composers and librettists to develop a work for a workshop performance, after which the work's future -- as opera, or as music theater -- will be determined. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The composers and librettists of a thousand awful hymns ❋ Joanna Bogle (2009)

Almost exactly 1/3 of what we've done over the years is newly commissioned work, so I've gotten to work closely with composers and librettists. ❋ Will (2009)

After several failed attempts with two librettists, Mendelssohn wrote the libretto himself with emphasis on the dramatic qualities of the texts while desiring to make "Elijah" significant to contemporary audiences while creating a work that was more symbolic than historical. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the final analysis, Betty Comden is one of the most important librettists in the history of American musical comedy, contributing a wit informed both by her liberal Jewish upbringing and her implicit belief that women need to assert themselves creatively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her "Quando m'en vo" from La Boheme was as coquettish and self-satisfied as composer Giacomo Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa would have wished. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Act II pretty much played itself, thanks to Puccini and his librettists, and came across well despite Armiliato's continuing lack of tension. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)

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