Word: librettist
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...last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft of her end of the work. She had begun it in her Greenwich Village home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely...
...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
...dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas date from when they fought with spears, and he read about his characters in some book. He has been seen in better lights as versifier (The Quiet Singer, Manhattan, Beyond the Stars), as librettist and as sometime editor of The Designer, The Smart Set and McClure...
...anything for the first time entitles the doer to at least a modicum of notice. Last winter two wealthy young San Franciscans decided that they would become the first U. S. composer and librettist to have an opera which was their joint work produced in Europe. They were aided by "Doc" Leahy, of the old San Francisco Tivoli, in their eventually successful efforts to have their opera, Fay-Yen-Fah, produced by the Monte Carlo Casino Opera Company. Last week these two young men were "showered with real orchids" as their opera had its U. S. premiere in San Francisco...
...librettist of the opera is Cesar Hanau; the translator into French, Paul Ferrier...