Mozart S Librettist
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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.
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.
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.
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 : Sheila Hodges
language : en
Publisher: New York : Universe Books
Release Date : 1985
Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Sheila Hodges and has been published by New York : Universe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Librettists categories.
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) was the celebrated librettist for Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte. This biography traces his life from his childhood in a Jewish ghetto, through his time as a Catholic priest, as a librettist, as a poor immigrant to the United States, and finally as a professor of Italian at Columbia University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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.
Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart S Librettist
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Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart S Librettist written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Author : April FitzLyon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11
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The Libertine Librettist
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Author : April FitzLyon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
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Mozart S Operas
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Author : Daniel Heartz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990
Mozart S Operas written by Daniel Heartz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection. The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte—Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well. Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.