Quotes About Librettist

Legrand shares with his predecessor that rare ability to joke in music just as his librettist jokes in words. The composer has in fact termed Amour "an opéra-bouffe"—Offenbach's own form.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

You have seven writers in your basement?" Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don't usually make much trouble.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.