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" Lorenzo Da Ponte : "
Sheila Hodges ; foreword by H.C. Robbins Landon.
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BL
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1034811
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b789181
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| Main Entry
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Hodges, Sheila.
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Lorenzo Da Ponte : : the life and times of Mozart's librettist /\ Sheila Hodges ; foreword by H.C. Robbins Landon.
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Madison :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :: illustrations
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0299178730
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: 0299178749
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: 9780299178741
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0299178749
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-265) and index.
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| Abstract
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Three of the greatest operas ever written - The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cos︡i fan tutte - join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte's own long life (1749-1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University - wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III's London to New York City.
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo,1749-1838.
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo,1749-1838.
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo.
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Librettists, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Composers Musicians.
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Librettists.
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MUSIC-- Genres Styles-- Opera.
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| Dewey Classification
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782.1/092B
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ML423.D15H6 2002eb
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