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Librettists

Alessandro Striggio the Younger
Italian opera librettist
Antonio Ghislanzoni
Italian journalist, poet, and novelist (1824-1893)
Arrigo Boito
Italian librettist and composer (1842-1918)
Cesare Sterbini
Italian writer and librettist
Emanuel Schikaneder
German actor and singer
Francesco Maria Piave
Italian opera librettist
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Italian opera librettist
Giuseppe Adami
Italian opera librettist (1878-1946)
Giuseppe Giacosa
Italian writer and librettist (1847–1906)
Guido Menasci
Italian librettist
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
French playwright and librettist
Henri Meilhac
French dramatist and opera librettist (1830–1897)
Hippolyte Bis
French playwright and librettist (1789-1855)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)
Louis Gallet
French writer
Ludovic Halévy
French writer (1834–1908)
Luigi Illica
Italian librettist
Ottavio Rinuccini
Italian poet (1562-1621)
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet and librettist
Renato Simoni
Italian opera librettist
Richard Genée
Austrian librettist, playwright and composer (1823–1895)
Salvadore Cammarano
Italian librettist and playwright
Temistocle Solera
Italian opera librettist
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
French writer (1764-1846)
W. S. Gilbert
19th-century English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator