Lorenzo Da Ponte : the life and times of Mozart's librettist / Sheila Hodges ; foreword by H.C. Robbins Landon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, Sheila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Librettists--Biography.

Librettists.

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.

Da Ponte, Lorenzo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Three of the greatest operas ever written-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte-join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte's own long life (1749-1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University-wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III's London to New York City.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

LORENZO DA PONTE

Chronological Table of the Main Events of Da Ponte's Life

Da Ponte's Works

Acknowledgements

Notes and References

Note Regarding the Memoirs

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Grafton Books, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-265) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269066

9781282269064

1282269062

9780299178734

0299178730

OCLC:

294959859