Word: librettist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...masterpiece could only be horrified at what Broadway might do to Lolita. At any rate, this time Nabokov decided not to be a party to the adaptation himself. He waived script approval, though he did retain veto power over the choice of the adapter and composer. As it happened, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady, Coco) was at that very moment inquiring about Lolita. Nabokov, who had never seen a Lerner musical, listened to some of the original-cast albums, met him, and was satisfied. "Mr. Lerner," he said, "is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have...
Died. Giovacchino Forzano, 86, Italian playwright and librettist noted for his work with Puccini; in Rome. Forzano won plaudits for his librettos for Puccini's one-act Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, and contributed librettos for such other composers as Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Lehar. Italians also remember him as the dramatist who nursed Mussolini's passion to write, thrice co-authoring plays with H Duce...
Wystan Hugh Auden-poet, critic,playwright, and librettist-was born in England but now divides his time between Manhattan and Kirchstetten, Austria...