Lorenzo da Ponte: Mozart's finest Librettist

From: Musical Opinion | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Zweifel, Paul; Zweifel, Kathleen | Copyright information

Operas and operettas are usually referred to by the name of the composer alone, the librettist being relegated to limbo. One exception, in operetta, is the tandem of 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 in which the musically aware concede to the librettist a role al...

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