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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Example Sentences

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

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

After returning to Vienna he obtained another libretto from Da Ponte, that of "Don Giovanni," which was produced at Prague, October 29, 1787.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)