What's the difference between librettist and libretto?
Librettist
Definition:
(n.) One who makes a libretto.
Example Sentences:
(1) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
(2) A speaker also condemned Alice Goodman, the opera’s librettist, who in 2012 told the Guardian that creating the show ended her career .
(3) W. S. Gilbert, librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, suffered from such extreme anxiety at the opening night performance of his plays that he was unable to remain in the theater.
(4) WH Auden said the most important thing the librettist does is inspire the composer.
(5) It is more than 25 years since composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman – of Nixon in China fame – were commissioned to write an opera on the murder of an elderly Jewish American during a Palestinian terrorist hijack in 1985.
(6) The creators of The Death of Klinghoffer - Adams, librettist Alice Goodman and director Peter Sellers - have done just that, he argued.
(7) But he is working on another opera, with Goodman once more his librettist.
(8) Monday’s playbill will also feature a statement by the sisters, who said they were not consulted by the composer or librettist in the development of the opera.
(9) Original composer Michael Gore, lyricist Dean Pitchford and librettist Lawrence D Cohen revised the lyrics and score but it was not enough to fully lift the curse on Carrie: The Musical, which eventually closed two weeks early due to poor ticket sales, and did not earn back the $1.5m that had been invested in the morbid production.
(10) Librettist Alice Goodman called the decision “wrong and contradictory” and admitted surprise “that the Met did not have a plan in place as to how it was going to address the controversy that this opera always brings with it.” She questioned the reasons for cancelling the simulcast.
(11) They look very much the iconoclastic intellectuals: the man hailed by critic Harold Bloom as "the strongest British poet now active", and the twentysomething tyro librettist, full of the sexy confidence of youth.
(12) The librettist, Schikaneder, obviously wanted a big, fun popular show with plenty of scenic effects.
(13) The controversy silenced her creatively for decades, depriving us of the talents of one of opera's most poetic librettist.
(14) Her uncle was the theatrical art director, painter and librettist Alexander Benois, co-founder of the magazine Mir Iskusstva (The World Of Art), out of which sprang Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
(15) Whatever else Goodman is – midwestern Jew turned Cambridgeshire clergywoman, apostate librettist, woman whose brilliant writing career was nipped in the bud – she's not exactly Dawn French's Vicar of Dibley .
Libretto
Definition:
(n.) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.
(n.) The words themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) I loved my Toshiba Libretto and yearned for a similarly-sized MacBook.
(2) I would like to write a ballet, I’d like to write a libretto, I want to write a musical … I’ve got a lot of other things I’d like to do.” Inspired by a two-minute appearance in James Graham’s election-themed The Vote (the same role Jude Law did on another night, he beams), he’s even keen to get back on stage.
(3) Two years ago, when it was staged in London, Alice Goodman, who wrote the libretto, told the Guardian that the furore had ended her career .
(4) Her libretto told the story of the real-life murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish American, by Palestinian terrorists on an Italian cruise liner in 1985.
(5) Writing the libretto was the culmination of a spiritual and ethical journey for Goodman.
(6) When Alice Goodman was writing the libretto for The Death of Klinghoffer , she sensed she was creating something extraordinary.
(7) The only hazard to this libretto is that their conflict, which has become an iconic representation of the tension between top-down and organic notions of urbanism, was one in which most contact was indirect.
(8) Potted profile Born 1967 Career Started writing plays in Cork in 1993 and has since authored 17 stage plays, two radio plays, three screenplays, the book for a musical and an opera libretto.
(9) rts.org.uk Curriculum vitae Age 54 Education St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, University College, Oxford Career 1994 co-writer, co-director, Knowing Me, Knowing You 2001 The Armando Iannucci Show, Channel 4 2005 creator, The Thick Of It 2008 wrote libretto for Opera North’s production Skin Deep 2009 film director, In The Loop 2012 creator, Veep 2013 co-writer Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa
(10) Sir Peter's wide vocal repertoire and imaginative range took in the creation of the rough-hewn and tormentedly boy-obsessed Peter Grimes, the modernising of Suffolk and other folk songs, and even a contribution to the libretto for one of Britten's sunnier operas, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(11) When was the last time you witnessed 1,300 wealthy theatergoers totally captivated – not answering their cellphones, not asleep, not talking to their dates – by a libretto written completely in verse?
(12) Proulx went one step further, offering to write the libretto.
(13) But her libretto gave voice to his murderers' motives.