Da Ponte
Americannoun
noun
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Da Ponte created a streamlined version of the piece; his son Luigi contributed the English translation that Teatro Nuovo used for its projected titles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, meant to make us squirm as they uncover our insecurities and the faults in our materialistic facades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
“Even in the foundations of the myth,” Castellucci added, “he is someone who desires, who needs. And Mozart and Da Ponte” — Lorenzo Da Ponte, the work’s librettist — “only show us his failures.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Herrmann’s discovery of the “Ofelia” cantata—a brief setting of a poem by Da Ponte, composed sequentially by Mozart, Salieri, and a forgotten person named Cornetti—puts the supposed enmity between the two composers in perspective.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
Da Ponte pleaded for "the most splendid ornament" of the city in vain.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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