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 |
| American librettist | 4 |
| Italian librettist | 3 |
| opera librettist | 3 |
| English librettist | 2 |
| French librettist | 2 |
| Italian lyricist | 1 |
| Russian librettist | 1 |
| musical theatre lyricist | 1 |
| opera seria librettist | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Guelfo Civinini | — |
| Philippe Gille | — |
| Jacopo Ferretti | — |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | — |
| Kirsten Childs | musical theatre writer |
| Domenico Oliva | — |
| Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | — |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | — |
| Philippe Quinault | — |
| Carlo Goldoni | — |
| Alain Boublil | — |
| Chester Kallman | — |
| David Henry Hwang | — |
| Guy Bolton | — |
| John Logan | — |
| Pietro Metastasio | — |
| Pierre Perrin | — |
| Sir Isaac Pocock | — |
| Jean Cocteau | — |
| Ludovic Halévy | — |
| Joost van den Vondel | — |
| Jean de La Fontaine | — |
| Lee Hall | — |
| Maria Travia | Italian lyricist |
| August von Kotzebue | — |
| Ranieri de’ Calzabigi | — |
| Scott Wittman | Broadway lyricist |
| Rachel Sheinkin | — |
| Jay Reiss | — |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | — |
| W. H. Auden | — |
| Howard Lindsay | — |
| Dorothy Fields | — |
| Fred Saidy | — |
| Vladimir Belsky | — |
| Steven Levenson | — |
| Charles Klein | — |
| David Zippel | — |
| Modest Tchaikovsky | — |
| DuBose Heyward | — |
| Frances Goodrich | — |
| Arrigo Boito | — |
| Georg Friedrich Treitschke | — |
| Bertolt Brecht | — |
| Alan Jay Lerner | — |
| Christian Friedrich Henrici | — |
| Picander | — |
| Yip | — |
| Sheldon Harnick | Broadway lyricist |
| Jo Swerling | — |