Portrait of a phoenix; Discovering the poet who gave Mozart's operas their...

The Washington Times;  August 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, a lively portrait of a poet, priest and womanizer...converting to Catholicism. Rechristened Lorenzo Da Ponte after his sponsor, Bishop Da Ponte, the boy received a classical education at seminaries...

A bridge from Mozart to America Opera

International Herald Tribune;  October 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......music, but sure enough, it was Lorenzo Da Ponte, a name that would be forever yoked to...Don Giovanni'' and ''Cosi Fan Tutte.'' Da Ponte never tired of dropping Mozart's name...creditors and plagued by financial woes, Da Ponte joined his unofficial wife and his children...

The boisterous life of a libertine who worked with Mozart

International Herald Tribune;  July 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of VeniceThe Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and...librettists. At least not in the case of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the man who provided the texts for...of the publishing world's confidence in Da Ponte as a marketable subject must be due to...

The Librettist of VeniceBOOKS / Nonfiction

International Herald Tribune;  July 25, 2006 ;     682 words ......Venice:The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and...else to account for the fact that Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's collaborator and the librettist...up in New York, running a grocery store?Da Ponte, the subject of Rodney Bolt's biography...

Lorenzo's Toil; How the son of an impoverished leatherworker came to write...

The Washington Post;  July 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......VENICE The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and...toothless 55-year-old immigrant named Lorenzo Da Ponte opened a grocery store in New York City...impoverished leatherworker, only makes Da Ponte's story more sensational, as melodramatic...

Louisiana Rapist Faces Death Sentence

The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network);  September 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Joining us now from New Orleans is Graham Da Ponte, a lawyer representing Mr. Kennedy. All...she was eight-years old as well. GRAHAM DA PONTE, PATRICK O. KENNEDY'S ATTY.: That's correct. O'REILLY: So why shouldn't he die? DA PONTE: Well, he shouldn't die because he didn...

The Arts: Lorenzo the magnificent He wrote the librettos for Mozart's...

The Independent - London;  May 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Why have they never made "Lorenzo da Ponte: the Motion Picture"? A life more mercurial...the middle, Mozart. And what a star part Da Ponte is - an enigma, equally at home in any...Well, for a start he wasn't even Lorenzo da Ponte. Another opening sequence. Ceneda, north...

Biography The life of mozart's collaborator was an adventure story with...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 20, 2006 ;     673 words ...Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist...of Rodney Bolt's biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte says it all. Here is an adventure story...bottomed conceit. It's true that when Da Ponte, in his last years, wrote the whole thing...

Lorenzo da Ponte: Mozart's finest Librettist

Musical Opinion;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Strauss and von Hofmannstahl, but Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte. While Mozart and da Ponte collaborated on only three operas, half the number...wrote 14 operas in 25 years. So who was Lorenzo da Ponte? He was born Emmanuele Conegliano on 10 March...

'How Sweet It Is!' Virginia Lottery Celebrates Sixteen Years of Success;...

PR Newswire;  September 28, 2004 ;     493 words ......Commonwealth. But succeeded it has. In the sixteen years since the first ticket was sold, the...7.7 billion in prizes over the past sixteen years, and the Lottery's retail partners...retained its membership in the elite club. Sixteen years of the Virginia Lottery have translated...

The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte,...

Opera News;  October 1, 2006 ;     452 words ......Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Mozart's Poet. Casanova's Friend, and...colorful, comprehensive portrait of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the man best remembered as Mozart's librettist...reinvention to an art form. A veritable phoenix, Da Ponte cut a swath across Europe, ...

Simple and Delightful: They Don't All Do That

Forward;  August 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ......collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. In this comedy with dark overtones, everyone...was shameful and depraved.) The Mozart/Da Ponte collaborations are among the greatest...approaching that of his music. But while Da Ponte's libretti for "Marriage of Figaro" and...

classical.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 3, 2006 ;     448 words ......of his greatest achievements. Lorenzo da Ponte wrote the texts for his three greatest...were reductions of dramatic pieces, which da Ponte skilfully adapted to the form required...Liverpool Phil on Saturday next week. Da Ponte's life could itself have formed the subject...

String quartet's: show a bit bumpy

Charleston Daily Mail;  May 5, 2003 ;     272 words ......Chamber Music Society played host to the Da Ponte String Quartet at Christ Church United...new, and it sounds exciting as usual. Da Ponte announced an interim second violinist...Molto Allegro Vivace," seemed deadly for Da Ponte. Even though they tuned twice during the...

Quartet stumbles, finds its groove: Review

Charleston Gazette;  May 5, 2003 ;     441 words ...A large crowd turned out for the Da Ponte String Quartet's recital at Christ Church...more vigorous material seem labored. The Da Ponte forged on. It was obvious that this was...Mendelssohn, lighter-than-air music which the Da Ponte brimmed with poetic affection. It was...