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Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist in the Old and New Worlds
by Bolt, Rodney
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0747580146
- ISBN 13
- 9780747580140
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 2006. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The operatic life of the librettist for Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart s most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City s first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte s picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart s birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever." (publisher's blurb) Da Ponte's autobiography is also a gem.xvii, 428 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016621
- Title
- Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist in the Old and New Worlds
- Author
- Bolt, Rodney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0747580146
- ISBN 13
- 9780747580140
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo Da Ponte Opera Classical Music
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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