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    Lorenzo Da Ponte
    • Lorenzo Da Ponte

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.2(12)Add rating

      Mozart's operas where perfectly matched for the libretti of 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 rake; and a teacher, poet and librettist who became a greengrocer.

      Lorenzo Da Ponte