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librettist

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as in lyricist

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Recent Examples of librettist Jackson had a similar experience during grad school with Jackie O, by the composer Michael Daugherty and the librettist Wayne Koestenbaum. — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026 The Grammys and the opera category The Best Opera Recording award goes to the conductor, album producers, principal soloists, and the composer and librettist, if applicable, of a world premiere opera recording. — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2026 Their liberating actions are symbolic by design, according to Davis and librettist Havis. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026 Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker. — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist

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Noun

The album largely drew inspiration from a car accident that left a 16-year-old Hersh, the band’s primary lyricist, with a rod in her skull.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Mazzoli, who fronts an electro-acoustic band in addition to her operatic career, selected the Saunders novel, turning the book into a close to three hour opera, with her longtime lyricist Royce Vavrek.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of lyricist

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There are new openings, such as the Cape Froward National Park in Chile, and landmark anniversaries, like a Beethoven festival in Leipzig, Germany, to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
The sixth annual fundraiser honored Oscar winner Charlize Theron with the Icon Award, filmmaker and composer John Carpenter with the Luminary Award and Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo with the Vantage Award.

— Deputy Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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Biermann, the new documentary film from Jens Meurer (An Impossible Project, Public Enemy, Seaside Special), is a portrait of the outspoken political singer-songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Aside from his work on screen, the Londoner is an accomplished poet whose work explores themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of poet

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While today The Attico’s bestsellers range from the Anja bomber jacket to the Fern cargo pants that have found a big fan in the duo’s ultimate muse Cher, Tordini and Ambrosio included in the new capsule collection nods to their own favorite pieces.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
In broad, romantic strokes, Diotima is Scott’s ultimate muse.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of muse

Noun

Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

— New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.

— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

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