Da Ponte
Americannoun
noun
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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
Da Ponte originally wrote his “Così Fan Tutte” libretto for Salieri, who began working on it and then set it aside.
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
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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