Da Ponte

American  

[duh pon-tee, dah pawn-te] / də ˈpɒn ti, dɑ ˈpɔn tɛ /

noun

1. Lorenzo Emanuele Conegliano, 1749–1838, Italian librettist and teacher of Italian, in the U.S. after 1805.

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Da Ponte British  

/ dɑ ˈpɔnte /

noun

1. Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Cosi fan tutte (1790)

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Da Ponte

Phil became an opera company and Disney an almost fullfledged opera house, staging Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas with sets by famed architects, beginning with Gehry, and costumes by edgy designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

López has also folded into this new drama some nods to Don Juan tellings by Tirso de Molina, Lorenzo Da Ponte and Molière.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2017

Not everything fits the Drill Hall’s expanse, Mr. Audi said: Mozart’s operas with Lorenzo Da Ponte, for instance, or anything that relies on lots of text.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

Until seven or eight years ago nobody seems to have taken the trouble to look into the family antecedents of him whom the world will always know as Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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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