Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist in the Old And New Worlds - Hardcover

Bolt, Rodney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596911182 ISBN 13: 9781596911185

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2006

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In 1805, the year that Wordsworth completed The Prelude and Nelson defeated the French at Trafalgar, Lorenzo da Ponte opened a grocery shop in New York. In the first forty years of his life had been poet, priest, lover, libertine, collaborator with Salieri, librettist for three of Mozart s most sublime operas, friend of Casanova, and a favourite of Emperor Joseph II. By the end of his life he would have founded New York s first opera house and become the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. Da Ponte lived through the period when opera came of age - when he was born, Handel was all the rage; if he had survived four more years he could have witnessed Wagner s debut - and he plotted and schemed his way through the opera worlds of both London and Vienna. This was a man who converted from Judaism to Christianity, took the cloth, was banished twice from Venice once for scandalous behaviour, and later for scurrilous versifying, who was an inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, and who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness.

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Rodney Bolt is the author of History Play, a speculative biography of Christopher Marlowe. He has worked as a writer and director and won travel-writing prizes in Germany and the United States. He lives in Amsterdam.

Rodney Bolt is the author of History Play, a speculative biography of Christopher Marlowe. He has worked as a writer and director and won travel-writing prizes in Germany and the United States. He lives in Amsterdam.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St. Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1596911182
• ISBN 13: 9781596911185
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
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