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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.
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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; ...
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A bridge from Mozart to America Opera
International Herald Tribune
; Jeremy Eichler International Herald Tribune 10-06-2005 On June 4, 1805, a ship from London sailed into the harbor of Philadelphia, and a toothless 56-year-old Italian man disembarked. He was completely broke, having gambled away all his money on the two-month passage from Europe, so he borrowed $32
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Portrait of a phoenix; Discovering the poet who gave Mozart's operas their words.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In this 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, you may hear words from the opera Don Giovanni attributed unfairly, as it turns out to Mozart. In the world of popular musicals, lyricist and composer receive equal billing. In opera, the
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The Librettist of VeniceBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune
; Charles McGrath International Herald Tribune 07-25-2006 The Librettist of Venice:The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America By Rodney Bolt428 pages. $29.95. Bloomsbury.Reviewed by Charles McGrath*Every now and then history
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Lorenzo's Toil; How the son of an impoverished leatherworker came to write Mozart's libretti.
The Washington Post
; THE LIBRETTIST OF VENICE The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America By Rodney Bolt Bloomsbury. 428 pp. $29.95 In 1805, a toothless 55-year-old immigrant named Lorenzo Da Ponte opened a grocery store in New York City. He
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Words to a music of chance.(ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: SUSAN TOMES In case the name of Lorenzo da Ponte isn't immediately recog-nisable, this enjoyable biography provides a subtitle: the adventures of Mozart's librettist in the old and new worlds . Rodney Bolt got my attention right away with a remark in the preface: It is curious that in the
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Biography The life of mozart's collaborator was an adventure story with musical interludes, says Jonathan Keates
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist in the Old and New Worlds BY RODNEY BOLT BLOOMSBURY, pounds 20, 428 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The subtitle of Rodney Bolt's biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte says it all. Here is an adventure story pure and simple, the stuff
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Simple and Delightful: They Don't All Do That
Forward
; Mostel, Raphael Forward 08-06-2004 What is the nature of true love? If there is such a thing, how to understand infidelity? One of the most famously cynical and humane answers is "Cosi Fan Tutte" ("They All Do That and it is the last of three operas that Mozart wrote in collaboration with
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Wherever Sickles goes, trouble follows.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Erin Solaro, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Thomas Keneally's biography of Dan Edgar Sickles makes for sordid reading, not because Keneally is prurient, but because Sickles was thoroughly dishonorable. Dan Sickles died in April 1914 at the age of 94. A year earlier, he had been arrested
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Biography This life of mozart's librettist fails to hit the high notes, says Jonathan Keates
The Sunday Telegraph London
; The Man Who Wrote Mozart BY ANTHONY HOLDEN WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 18.99, 238 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 A Mozart commemoration year begins, and the heart sinks as the grovellers assemble. Ever since Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, that theatrical cocktail of abject banality
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Lorenzo da Ponte: Mozart's finest Librettist
Musical Opinion
; ... William Schwenck Gilbert's words and Arthur Sullivan's music. But even there, in the Metropolitan Opera's house publication Opera News, we always find G&S operettas listed as by Sullivan". However, there are two operatic composer-librettist collaborations ...
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