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2 unusual facts about Lorenzo Da Ponte


Brigida Banti

There she met Lorenzo Da Ponte, who reported she had been vulgar, impudent, dissolute and even a drunkard.

Judd Woldin

Lorenzo, a musical based on Mozart librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, premiered at the George Street Playhouse in 1982.


Alexey Kudrya

In March–April 2009, he played Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Vlaamse Opera in Belgium; and a Dramma Giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) based on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Bernard Haitink

Other recordings include the complete orchestral works of Debussy, the two symphonies of Elgar, the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas, and Wagner's complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Danielle de Niese

At the end of 2006, when De Nederlandse Opera staged the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, de Niese sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte.

Giovanni Bertati

Emperor Leopold II gave Bertati the title of Poeta Cesareo ("Imperial Poet") of the Italian Opera in Vienna, previously held by Lorenzo Da Ponte, who, a year earlier, fell in disgrace with the emperor.

Non più andrai

The Italian libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784).

Se vuol ballare

The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784).


see also

L'arbore di Diana

Anthony Holden, Lorenzo Da Ponte, The Man Who Wrote Mozart (2006)