Famous librettists
author of the libretto (words) of an opera or a similar extended musical composition
481 people
Colette
1873
– 1954
· Age 81
Deceased
Rudolf Steiner
1861
– 1925
· Age 64
Deceased
E. M. Forster
1879
– 1970
· Age 91
Deceased
Gertrude Stein
1874
– 1946
· Age 72
Deceased
Tina Fey
1970
· Age 55
Alive
Martin Buber
1878
– 1965
· Age 87
Deceased
Clement IX
1600
– 1669
· Age 69
Deceased
Mel Brooks
1926
· Age 99
Alive
Anthony Burgess
1917
– 1993
· Age 76
Deceased
Paul Auster
1947
– 2024
· Age 77
Deceased
Theodor Fontane
1819
– 1898
· Age 78
Deceased
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1884
– 1937
· Age 53
Deceased
Paul Claudel
1868
– 1955
· Age 86
Deceased
Jean Paul
1763
– 1825
· Age 62
Deceased
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1874
– 1929
· Age 55
Deceased
Amin Maalouf
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Sacha Guitry
1885
– 1957
· Age 72
Deceased
Boris Vian
1920
– 1959
· Age 39
Deceased
Robert Altman
1925
– 2006
· Age 81
Deceased
Ruggero Leoncavallo
1857
– 1919
· Age 62
Deceased
P. G. Wodehouse
1881
– 1975
· Age 93
Deceased
Olivier Messiaen
1908
– 1992
· Age 83
Deceased
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1657
– 1757
· Age 99
Deceased
Alexander Ostrovsky
1823
– 1886
· Age 63
Deceased
Leoš Janáček
1854
– 1928
· Age 74
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q8178443