The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America Opera News | October 1, 2006| | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Oct 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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

As is clear from The Librettist of Venice, Rodney Bolt's colorful, comprehensive portrait of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the man best remembered as Mozart's librettist elevated personal reinvention to an art form. A veritable phoenix, Da Ponte cut a swath across Europe, arriving in Venice, Dresden, Vienna, London and several smaller cities along the way with only a few books and a letter of introduction. In each town, he ...

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