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Alasdair Middleton

Alasdair Middleton is a British playwright and opera librettist.

Arthur Yorinks

Yorinks was Philip Glass’s librettist for the operas The Juniper Tree and The Fall of the House of Usher, both of which have been performed all over the world.

Arvey

Verna Arvey (1910–1987), American librettist, pianist and writer

Bernauer

Rudolf Bernauer (1880–1953), Austrian lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor

Boublil

Alain Boublil, (born 1941), French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

Carl Blum

Carl Wilhelm August Blum (Berlin, 1786 - Berlin 2 July 1844) was a German singer, librettist, stage actor, director, guitarist and opera and song composer.

Christian Heinrich Postel

Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658, Freiburg/Elbe - 22 March 1705, Hamburg) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist.

Comédie mêlée d'ariettes

The form is particularly associated with the work of the librettist Louis Anseaume.

Der letzte Walzer

Der letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz) is a Viennese operetta in three acts, with music by Oscar Straus, to a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald.

Don Juanism

This aspect of the character is examined by Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte in their opera Don Giovanni, perhaps the best-known artistic work on this subject.

Egressy

Béni Egressy (1814-1851), Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor.

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

Most prominent of these is a long correspondence in the 1770s with Metastasio, the Italian court poet in Vienna and greatest librettist of the 18th century.

Emmet G. Lavery, Jr.

(born ca. 1930) is an American television and film producer, attorney, and the son of the librettist, playwright, and screenwriter Emmet Lavery.

H.M.S. Parliament

Published in 1880, it adapted the music of H.M.S. Pinafore by Arthur Sullivan to a new libretto by William H. Fuller (who was also the librettist for The Unspecific Scandal).

Henri Trianon

Henri Trianon (born 11 July 1811 in Paris – died 17 October 1896 ibid) was a French critic, librettist and translator of works by Homer and Plato, and operas by Weber and Mozart into French.

Ida Emerson

She was one of the few women admitted to the famed group of song writers of Tin Pan Alley, where she worked with her husband, composer, lyricist, arranger and librettist Joseph E. Howard as part of the song writing team of Howard and Emerson.

Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter, BWV 193a

However, there has been speculation that Picander based his text on the work of Christian Friedrich Hunold, an earlier librettist of Bach.

J. Russel Robinson

In 1957, while living in Palmdale, California, Robinson teamed with a young librettist/lyricist, Leo McElroy, to create the score for a musical entitled Mermaid Tavern which enjoyed a brief flirtation off-Broadway and continues to be considered and produced in regional theatres.

Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis (librettist), nominated for a Tony award in 1996 for the libretto of Chronicle of a Death Foretold

John Heilpern

He has also worked as Peter Hall’s assistant director on Tamburlaine at the National Theatre of Great Britain in 1976, and when he went to live in New York in 1980, he subsequently worked on Broadway as a librettist for Michael Bennett (of A Chorus Line).

Joseph E. Howard

Joseph Edgar Howard (Feb 12, 1878 – May 19, 1961) was a Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist.

Larry Hart

Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), librettist and songwriter, also/better known as Larry Hart

Le Vaisseau fantôme

Although Pillet was interested in the subject he determined to contract librettist Paul Foucher and Dietsch to create the work.

Leopoldo Marenco

Leopoldo Marenco (born at Ceva in 1831; died 1899) was an Italian dramatic poet, now known as a librettist.

Maccioni

Giovanni Battista Maccioni (floruit 1651–1674), Italian composer, and librettist

Mario and the Magician

Mario and the Magician was adapted into an English opera by librettist J. D. McClatchy and composer Francis Thorne.

Marshall Barer

Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.

Mel Gussow

In 2008, Gussow was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame at the same time as actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, the actors John Cullum, Lois Smith and Dana Ivey, the director Jack O'Brien, the playwright Peter Shaffer, and the librettist Joseph Stein.

Minato

Nicolò Minato (c. 1627–1698), Italian poet, librettist and impresario

Moritz Eggert

Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup (together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and is currently working on a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn opera house (“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007, director: Christoph Schlingensief).

Murray Boren

Boren has written the music for ten operas, some of which were with Glen Nelson as the librettist.

Nicolas-François Guillard

One of the foremost of the French librettist of his generation, he wrote libretti for many noted composers of the day, including Salieri (Les Horaces) and in particular Sacchini (Oedipe à Colone, amongst many others).

Pharnaces II of Pontus

The 18th-century librettist Antonio Maria Lucchini crafted a libretto based on incidents from the life of Pharnaces II that was originally set by Antonio Vivaldi in 1727 under the title Farnace.

Prix Rossini

The Prix Rossini for composition was a prize for young librettist and composers which was granted by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers (Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers) (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.

Rose Hersee

Hersee was the daughter of Henry Hersee (1820–1896), a teacher, critic for The Observer, librettist of Cowen's Pauline (1876), and translator of operas including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Carmen and Aida.

Schnepfenthal Salzmann School

Another was the Austrian poet, librettist, lithographer and actor, Franz von Schober.

Sherman Yellen

In both this work and Josephine Tonight!, a musical biography of the early life of Josephine Baker produced by Theatre Building Chicago, Yellen was librettist and lyricist to composer Harper.

Sonnleithner

Joseph Sonnleithner (1766-1835), Austrian librettist, theater director, lawyer and archivist.

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

The Centre has since hosted a wide variety of performers, including the Gryphon Trio; the St Lawrence and Tokyo string quartets; Marc-André Hamelin; Jon Kimura Parker; the Chamber Players of Toronto; MegaCity Chorus; Nexus; the ORIANA Women's Choir; Youth and Music Canada; and the Elmer Iseler Singers, who premiered Pimooteewin: The Journey (Melissa Hui, composer; Tomson Highway, librettist) at the Centre in February 2008.

Thank You, Fog

The book also includes two of the lyrics that Auden wrote for the musical comedy Man of La Mancha, which were rejected by the original librettist of that play.

The Golden Ticket

The Golden Ticket was originally conceived as a project for London’s Royal National Theatre, but early workshops initiated by the composer and librettist revealed the challenges of producing an opera under the auspices of a theater company that did not regularly employ classically trained singers.

Tornrak

it was not until 1986 that Brian McMaster, the company's then managing director, first brought the composer and librettist together.

Will Holt

Will Holt (born April 30, 1929 in Portland, Maine) is an American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist known first and primarily as a folk performer during the 1950s and 1960s and as an interpreter of the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in performances and recordings with Martha Schlamme.

Zöllner

Heinrich Zöllner (1854–1941), German composer, conductor and librettist


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