Metastasio

Metastasio

male, deceased (1782)
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 - April 12, 1782) was an Italian writer and poet.
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Libretto

male
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, musical, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata,... More
Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

male, deceased (1883)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his... More
Lorenzo da Ponte

Lorenzo da Ponte

male, deceased (1838)
Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano. He was the first faculty member to have been born a Jew, and also the first to have been ordained as a... More
Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

male, deceased (1918)
Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 - June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti... More
Jules Barbier

Jules Barbier

male
Jules Barbier was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky

male, deceased (1916)
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, May 13 [OS May 1] 1850, Alapaevsk – January 15 [OS January 2] 1916, Moscow) was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist an... More
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

male, deceased (1929)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

male, deceased (1973)
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th... More
Myfanwy Piper

Myfanwy Piper

female, deceased (1997)
Myfanwy Piper was an English art critic and opera librettist. Mary Myfanwy Evans was born in London and read English at St Hugh's College, Oxford.... More