The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre by Rodney Bolt

The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre

Rodney Bolt

448 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography music informative lighthearted relaxing slow-paced
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The operatic life of the librettist for Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro.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 pri...

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