Hwang became a frequent collaborator as a librettist with the world-renowned composer Philip Glass.

In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new dramma giocoso style.

What became the essential features of ' grand opéra ' were foreseen by Etienne de Jouy, the librettist of Guillaume Tell, in an essay of 1826:

In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597, he became the first opera librettist.

After Italy was unified in 1861, many of Verdi's early operas were re-interpreted as Risorgimento works with hidden Revolutionary messages that probably had not been intended by either the composer or librettist.

It is an accurate and learned, yet dramatic and humorous, depiction of Verdi's relationship with his librettist Arrigo Boito, and the attempts of Giulio Ricordi and Franco Faccio to get the two to collaborate on a project, Otello.

He also continued to work on a comic opera, Die schweigsame Frau, with his Jewish friend and librettist Stefan Zweig.

The librettist Paolo Rolli, a close friend and supporter of Senesino, commented: " Farinelli has surprised me so much that I feel as though I had hitherto heard only a small part of the human voice, and now have heard it all.

** Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65

Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a great friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music.

His friend Ferenc Martos ( 1875 – 1938 ), a distinguished Hungarian librettist, worked in the same department and wrote all the librettos for his operettas.

* a copy of one of the first biographies of Handel by John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens,

It contains portraits of Handel and Charles Jennens, Handel's friend and librettist of Messiah.

During a dinner at Verdi ’ s Milan residence during the summer of 1879, Ricordi and Faccio guided the conversation towards Shakespeare ’ s play Othello and to the librettist Arrigo Boito ( whom Ricordi claimed to be a great fan of the play also ).

Nonetheless, collaborations with Boito in the revision of the earlier opera Simon Boccanegra helped to convince Verdi of Boito ’ s ability as a librettist.

His heart was later moved to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil through the engagement of Arrigo Boito, composer and librettist to Giuseppe Verdi, both of whom were friends of the Morosini-Negroni family.

He then found work as a librettist ; his collaboration with the composer Giuseppe Verdi began in 1839 and lasted for a few years.

Verdi had rejected an 1852 request to write a new last act for the Wellingrode version, but, by Spring 1856, in collaboration with his original librettist, Piave, he decided to rewrite the story line and make a small amount of musical changes and additions.

A revised version of the opera, entitled Guglielmo Wellingrode ( with the hero a German minister of state ), was presented in 1851, without either Verdi or his librettist Piave being responsible for it.

It later becomes known that the librettist, " Paul Schott ", is Korngold's father Julius.

By 1766, when John Montresor made his detailed plan of New York, " Bowry Lane ", which took a more north-tending track at the rope walk, was lined for the first few streets with buildings that formed a solid frontage, with market gardens behind them ; when Lorenzo Da Ponte, the librettist for Mozart's Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Cosi Fan Tutte, emigrated to New York City in 1806, he briefly ran one of the shops along the Bowery, a fruit and vegetable store.

On 9 January 1889, three months into that opera's fourteen-month run, Sullivan informed the librettist that he " wanted to do some dramatic work on a larger musical scale ", that he " wished to get rid of the strongly marked rhythm, and rhymed couplets, and have words that would have a chance of developing musical effects.

On his return the following year, Haydn and van Swieten developed a close working relationship, with van Swieten serving as his librettist and artistic adviser.

* July 17-Salvadore Cammarano, librettist ( b. 1801 )

Algarotti's ideas influenced both Gluck and his librettist, Calzabigi writing their Orfeo ed Euridice.

Starting with Cadmus et Hermione, Lully and his librettist Quinault created tragédie en musique, a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent.

The relationship of the librettist ( that is, the writer of a libretto ) to the composer in the creation of a musical work has varied over the centuries, as have the sources and the writing techniques employed.

Kander continued working on the project with a new librettist Rupert Holmes, writing new lyrics when necessary.

Russel Crouse ( 20 February 1893 – 3 April 1966 ) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse.

Janáček gave his librettist complete freedom in range when it came to writing.

He died there while writing lyrics for San Toy, and the piece was completed by Adrian Ross, who, with Greenbank, was largely responsible for establishing the post of lyricist ( as opposed to librettist, or co-writer ) in the modern musical theatre.

Another noted 18th century librettist was Lorenzo da Ponte, who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's greatest operas, as well as for many other composers.

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, ( January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782 ) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

In the early 1740s he began setting new Metastasian libretti unadapted, and his personal relations with the librettist also improved significantly at around this time.

Following the 1919 revolution, he was pressured by the new Soviet government to remove the name of the librettist Béla Balázs from the opera ( Chalmers 1995, 123 ), as he was blacklisted and had left the country for Vienna.

Rossini's estate also provided funding for the Prix Rossini, a prize to be awarded to young composers and librettist.

Sullivan's first foray into comic opera was Cox and Box ( 1866 ), written with librettist F. C. Burnand for an informal gathering of friends.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus, collaborating with librettist S. J. Perelman and composer Kurt Weill.

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960 ) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and ( usually uncredited ) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

Although Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro was at first banned in Vienna because of its licentiousness, Mozart's librettist managed to get official approval for an operatic version which eventually achieved great success.

* November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, British playwright and librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan ( d. 1911 )

Leoncavallo was the librettist for most of his own operas.

Nonetheless, Ricordi reached terms with Sardou, and assigned the librettist Luigi Illica to write a scenario for an adaptation.

He had signed the contract in July 1835 to present Belisario in Venice, for what would be the first visit to that city since 1819, but it was not until October that the subject was finally agreed upon, and there followed discussions with impressario Natale Fabbrici about employing a Venetian librettist, Pietro Beltrame.

Most researchers acknowledge that the credit for creating the operetta form should go to Hervé ( 1825 – 1892 ), a singer, composer, librettist, conductor, and scene painter.

The last two lines of the Act IV-scene 2 funeral song may also have inspired the lines W. H. Auden, the librettist for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, puts into the mouth of Anne Truelove at the end of the opera: " Every wearied body must late or soon return to dust ".

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

Poster for La figlia di Iorio where the librettist, Gabriele D ' Annunzio, is given top billing

Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.