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The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
That anniversary is also invoked by new contemporary opera from librettist Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner that ecounts the era of wrongful imprisonment via one Southern California family.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But the new opera’s librettist was a Jew.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
That anniversary is also invoked by new contemporary opera from librettist Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner that ecounts the era of wrongful imprisonment via one Southern California family.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But the new opera’s librettist was a Jew.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/librettist. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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librettist
noun
li·bret·tist
lə-ˈbret-əst 
: the writer of a libretto
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