Definition of "librettists" [librettists]

• Plural form of librettist. (noun)

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• "The Metropolitan Opera's ongoing commissioning program, announced in 2006, amounts to giving seed money to composers and librettists to develop a work for a workshop performance, after which the work's future -- as opera, or as music theater -- will be determined."
• "Its second failing is the libretto, by a pair of jobbing librettists who, when they heard the score, apologized to Bizet "for not giving him one of their best efforts," as George Hall writes in the program notes for the English National Opera's superb new production."
• "At the time, Walker was conducting Handel's "Acis and Galatea" for Opera Australia -- for which Pope had been one of the librettists."