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Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Man Behind Mozart

Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Man Behind Mozart

by RodneyBolt (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro , Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni . After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining biography of a larger-than-life character, and a vibrant portrait of four cities and four changing eras of history.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 19 Nov 2007
ISBN 10: 0747585369
ISBN 13: 9780747585367
Book Overview: By the author of the renowned History Play Lorenzo Da Ponte has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

Media Reviews
'An adventure story pure and simple ... crammed with amorous intrigues, narrow escapes, comic mishaps and last-minute rescues' Jonathan Keates, Sunday Telegraph 'Irresistible reading' Megan Marshall, Scotsman 'Bolt has meticulously followed [Da Ponte's] trail ... to create a wide counterpoint of supplementary information and new perspectives. He does so with a travel-writer's eye and a light touch ...The old poet would have enjoyed his biographer's sparkly turn of phrase' Independent 'Bolt has read widely, extracted wisely ... is generous with background detail and scrupulous with the facts ... an entertaining, informative and highly readable narrative' Guardian
Author Bio
Rodney Bolt's first book, History Play, a speculative biography of Christopher Marlowe, was published in summer 2004 by HarperCollins. He has worked as a writer and director and won travel-writing prizes in Germany and the United States.