The Arts: Lorenzo the magnificent He wrote the librettos for Mozart's three greatest operas - but that was just one extraordinary episode in the long and scandalous life of Lorenzo da Ponte.

The Independent - London | May 16, 2000| | Copyright

Why have they never made "Lorenzo da Ponte: the Motion Picture"? A life more mercurial, more cinematic is hard to imagine. It begins in 18th-century Venice; it ends in 1830s New York. With, somewhere in the middle, Mozart. And what a star part Da Ponte is - an enigma, equally at home in any country, any profession, any language, but ultimately seeming to belong nowhere. He was, after all, that rara avis, a Jewish Catholic priest with a wife and children. I see Alan Rickman; I see Sam Mendes; I see Oscars.

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