02837nam 22006134a 450 991096123510332120200520144314.097866122690669781282269064128226906297802991787340299178730(CKB)1000000000577184(OCoLC)294959859(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256036(SSID)ssj0000194290(PQKBManifestationID)11168237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194290(PQKBWorkID)10231191(PQKB)11742547(MiAaPQ)EBC3444780(MdBmJHUP)muse12437(Au-PeEL)EBL3444780(CaPaEBR)ebr10256036(Perlego)4390237(EXLCZ)99100000000057718420020117e20021985 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLorenzo Da Ponte the life and times of Mozart's librettist /Sheila Hodges ; foreword by H.C. Robbins Landon1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc20021 online resource (298 p.) Originally published: London : Grafton Books, 1985.9780299178741 0299178749 Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-265) and index.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.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. LibrettistsBiographyLibrettists782.1/092BHodges Sheila779141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961235103321Lorenzo Da Ponte1671635UNINA