Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart's Librettist - Brossura

Hodges, Sheila

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ISBN 10: 0299178749 ISBN 13: 9780299178741

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Three of the greatest operas ever written—The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte—join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte’s own long life (1749–1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University—wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III’s London to New York City.

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L'autore

Sheila Hodges is a writer living in London and author of eight books, as well as articles published in Opera Quarterly, Music Review, and other journals. She was formerly in charge of the editorial department at the publishing house of Victor Gollancz, where she edited all of Daphne du Maurier’s books in the last forty years of the author’s life.

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Book by Hodges Sheila

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• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0299178749
• ISBN 13: 9780299178741
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274