Relationship types / Artist-Work / Librettist
Description
Indicates the librettist for this work.
ID: 169
Cardinality of {entity0}
: Many relationships (1)
Cardinality of {entity1}
: Few relationships (0)
Orderable direction: None (0)
UUID: 7474ab81-486f-40b5-8685-3a4f8ea624cb
Link phrases
- Forward link phrase: {additional} libretto
- Reverse link phrase: {additional} librettist
- Long link phrase: {additional:additionally} wrote the libretto for
Attributes
The following attributes can be used with this relationship type:
additional
This attribute describes if a particular role was considered normal or additional.
start date
end date
Guidelines
Librettist is to be used for the author(s) of the words of an opera or other musical stage work, or an oratorio, including dialogue from musicals. For the author of the lyrics of the songs from a musical, see the lyricist relationship instead.
For musicals and other cases where the author of the libretto didn't also write the lyrics, link the librettist only to the main work (and any act works), but not to each song.
Use "additional" to distinguish writers whose contributions form only a minor part of the libretto.
Examples
Opera
Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the libretto for Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527
Musical theatre
Hugh Wheeler (English-born playwright, librettist, poet, and translator) wrote the libretto for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Oratorio
Charles Jennens wrote the libretto for Messiah, HWV 56