Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Memoirs
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Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
language : en
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Release Date : 2000-05-31
Memoirs written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has been published by NYRB Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The memoirs of the man who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's best operas.
The Librettist Of Venice
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Author : Rodney Bolt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-12-11
The Librettist Of Venice written by Rodney Bolt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : April Fitzlyon
language : en
Publisher: Alma Books
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Lorenzo Da Ponte written by April Fitzlyon and has been published by Alma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the revised edition of April FitzLyon's celebrated biography of Mozart's librettist, who provided the brilliant, witty texts for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte. Born a Jew in the Republic of Venice, Da Ponte became a Christian before involving himself in political and amorous intrigue and having to flee, like his friend Casanova, to Vienna, pursued by both the Inquisition and jealous husbands. As court poet to Joseph II he succeeded Metastasio and worked with many composers, until his escapades forced him to move on to London, where he managed the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. After a series of financial disasters, he moved to New York, where he worked several jobs before becoming a professor at Columbia. He helped to introduce Italian opera to the USA and in old age wrote his notoriously unreliable memoirs.This fascinating portrait provides a colourful picture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life in four capitals, combining musical and literary history with an account of the social life of the period.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : Sheila Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2002-06-15
Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Sheila Hodges and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Man Who Wrote Mozart The Extraordinary Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : Anthony Holden
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2024-06-24
The Man Who Wrote Mozart The Extraordinary Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Anthony Holden and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“During his picaresque, chameleon career, [Da Ponte] was always on the move. Jew and Catholic, priest and womaniser, poet and bankrupt, shopkeeper and university professor, he began his long life in and around Venice and ended it in New York. It is hard to imagine a more flamboyant personal history, a gift to the biographer Anthony Holden, who relishes his subject’s sheer exuberance.” — Lucasta Miller, The Guardian “Lorenzo da Ponte was, at various times, a Catholic priest, a gambler, a philanderer, an entrepreneur, a poet, a friend of Casanova, an enemy of the Venetian state, a teacher, a shopkeeper, a courtier and a troublemaker. The tangled yarn of his life would be worth spinning even had he not also written the libretto for Mozart’s three greatest operas. In The Man Who Wrote Mozart, Anthony Holden unravels the full nine decades of Da Ponte’s picaresque life, eight of which did not involve his friend Wolfgang... Holden’s narrative verve spans continents and centuries. His life of Da Ponte is engrossing and bound to be definitive.” — Rafael Behr, The Guardian “[T]he writer who evokes Mozart’s world most vividly - albeit obliquely - is the journalist and music critic Anthony Holden... Da Ponte’s life... is certainly a rollicking yarn... a riproaring read.” — Hugh Canning, Sunday Times “Anthony Holden writes extremely well, telling the racy story energetically... He provides a rattlingly good read, filled with vivid anecdotes.” — Spectator “Anthony Holden steers through this incredible picaresque story with elan, well paced gusto and a gentle, if not uncritical, eye... Anthony Holden’s book is a fine achievement.” — The Oldie “Anthony Holden’s... biography, brings assiduous new research to Da Ponte’s early and late life and tells his story in journalistic deadpan.” — The Tablet “Holden’s companionable new biography is a refreshing take on an old story.” — Mail on Sunday “[E]ntertaining.” — The Herald “He writes with a sincere enthusiasm about the creative partnership with Mozart.” — Sunday Telegraph “The trajectory of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s life was remarkable.” — London Review of Books “This is a tale of a literary adventurer, full of mystery... Holden does his readers a favour by making his subject interesting to an audience beyond opera lovers.” — Sunday Business Post “[A] genuine pleasure. At turns amusing, poignant and instructive, it engagingly captures the chemistry between librettist and composer that produced those masterpieces of the operatic repertoire.” — Irish Times “Phew! The only problem with this sparkling biography is keeping up with the headlong pace set by what was really an extraordinary life.” — Classic FM Magazine “Anything biographical or musical that Anthony Holden writes is automatically worth reading, and this exquisitely written book sees him discourse eruditely on both topics.” — Observer “Clear, impartial, accessible and concise.” — The Times “An enjoyable biography of a remarkable man.” — The Sunday Times “Anthony Holden’s compelling narrative does justice to the man and to the highs and lows of his unusually varied career.” — Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart S Librettist Translated With An Introduction And Notes
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Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
language : en
Publisher: London : G. Routledge
Release Date : 1929
Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart S Librettist Translated With An Introduction And Notes written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has been published by London : G. Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Composers categories.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : Rodney Bolt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Release Date : 2007
Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Rodney Bolt and has been published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Librettists categories.
By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte and Don Giovanni. After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining biography of a larger-than-life character, and a vibrant portrait of four cities and four changing eras of history.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : Joseph Louis Russo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Joseph Louis Russo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mozart S Librettist
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Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
language : en
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Release Date : 1967
Mozart S Librettist written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has been published by New York : Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Librettists categories.
Mozart S Da Ponte Operas
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Author : Burton D. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Mozart S Da Ponte Operas written by Burton D. Fisher and has been published by Opera Journeys Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Music categories.
The partnership of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, composer and librettist respectively for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, was one of the most extraordinary collaborations in the history of opera. The book features biographic profiles of composer and librettist - Mozart: Master of Musical Characterization, and Da Ponte: Ambassador of Italian Culture plus a complete portrait of each opera, featuring, Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples and complete Libretto, with Italian and English translations side-by-side.