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
The last work he staged, “Moby Dick” was for Wilson “Messiah”-like in that he picked and chose bits from a novel with an already interrupted narrative the way Handel’s librettist did from the Bible.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
"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
The librettist has taken the elements of his dramatic poem from Shakespeare's play, but has, owing to musical exigencies, very much cut down the work.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
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