librettist

C3035
concept

A librettist is a writer who creates the text, including dialogue and lyrics, for operas, musicals, and other vocal stage works.

All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
librettist canonical 148
Broadway lyricist 7
musical theatre writer 7

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: librettist
Generated description
A librettist is a writer who creates the text, including dialogue and lyrics, for operas, musicals, and other vocal stage works.

Instances (165)

Instance Via concept surface
Henri Meilhac
Doug Wright
Joseph Sonnleithner
Vasily Geltser
Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
Comden
surface form: Betty Comden
Basya Cohen
surface form: Betty Comden
Broadway lyricist
Fred Ebb
Russel Crouse
Tony Kushner
Peter Stone
Otto Harbach
Ingeborg Bachmann
Joe Darion
Mira Mendelson Russian librettist
Paul Muldoon
David Harsent
Thomas Meehan
Terrence McNally
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Marsha Norman
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Mark Bramble
John Gay
Tim Rice
Winnie Holzman
Bella Spewack
Herbert Fields
Pierre-Augustin Caron
surface form: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
W. S. Gilbert
Jerome Weidman
Hugh Wheeler
Joe Masteroff
Vladimir Begichev
Fred de Gresac
Crozier
surface form: Eric Crozier
Giovanni Francesco Busenello
E. Y. Harburg
Alessandro Striggio the Younger
Lynn Ahrens
Nicola Francesco Haym
Charles Jennens English librettist
Eric Crozier opera librettist
Hwang
surface form: David Henry Hwang
Thomas Morell
Thomas M. Disch
Robert Wright musical theatre lyricist
Heather Hach
HWV 68
surface form: Thomas Morell
Colleen Murphy