The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's ImpreBloomsbury Publishing USA, 11.12.2008 - 448 Seiten In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever. |
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Abbé Da Ponte Angela Anzoletta appears arias arrived audience Banti beautiful brother Burgtheater Casti Ceneda composer Così fan tutte Count Rosenberg diary Don Giovanni Emperor English father Ferrarese Figaro Garcia Girolamo Gorizia Gozzi Grahl gulden Haydn Hodges Italian Opera Italy January Joseph Joseph II King's Theatre L'arbore di Diana Lanapoppi later Leopold Leopold Mozart letter to Casanova librettist libretto London Lorenzo Da Ponte Maria Martín Mazzolà memoirs Memorie Metastasio Michael Kelly Michele Colombo Michtner Milhous Montresor Mozart and Vienna Mozart-Da Ponte Operas Nancy Storace Nancy's National Court Theatre night November opera buffa opera company opera house opera seria performance Pezzl Piozzi poem Ponte's Prague premiere quoted in ibid Realtà e leggenda Reminiscences Robbins Landon Salieri singers singing stage Steptoe Street theatre poet Toffoli town translation Treviso Trieste University Press Venetian Venice Vienna Wolfgang writing wrote York young Zagonel Zaguri