Da Ponte
Americannoun
noun
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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
Some of those recordings, like “Libertà!” — his exploration of Mozart’s experimental years before the trio of Da Ponte operas — are a little too metatheatrical, though their ambition is impressive.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
It was he who arranged for Da Ponte to obtain a position at court.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
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
The coming of Garcia had filled Da Ponte, then already seventy-six years old, with dreams of a recrudescence of such activities as had been his in connection with Italian Opera in Vienna and London.
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 Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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