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
Giuseppe Adami
Renato Simoni
Giacomo Badoaro
Kit Hesketh-Harvey musical theatre writer
Lerner and Loewe
surface form: Alan Jay Lerner
Sandy McClatchy
surface form: J. D. McClatchy
Robert E. Lee (playwright)
John Hughes
Rick Elice
Friedrich Schiller
James Fenton
Giovanni Francesco Bussani
Iacopo Cassetti
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi
Louis Fuzelier
Simon-Joseph Pellegrin
Nicolas-François Guillard
Giacomo Rossi
Antonio Fanzaglia
Silvio Stampiglia
Anthony Drewe
Betty Comden
Halévy
surface form: Ludovic Halévy
French librettist
David Mallet
Charles-Simon Favart
Jacques Offenbach
Attilio Regolo
surface form: Pietro Metastasio
John La Touche
Lee Breuer
Franc-Nohain
Luc Plamondon
Basil Hood
Calzabigi
surface form: Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Luigi Illica
Giuseppe Giacosa
Jules Barbier
Konstantin Shilovsky
Fred Thompson
Levenson
surface form: Steven Levenson
Catherine Johnson
François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
Menotti
surface form: Gian Carlo Menotti
wrote libretto for The Nutcracker
surface form: Ivan Vsevolozhsky
Hans Janowitz
Giulio Strozzi
Amanda Green Broadway lyricist
Lars Rudolfsson
John Latouche