Lorenzo Da Ponte

Zusatztext 'Bolt has read widely! extracted wisely ... is generous with background detail and scrupulous with the facts ... an entertaining! informative and highly readable narrative' Informationen zum Autor 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. The picaresque life of Lorenzo da Ponte makes a rollicking read Zusammenfassung 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". This is a biography of a character and a portrait of four cities.

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Bolt, Bolt Rodney
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2007
• EAN: 9780747585367
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8536-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; New York, austria, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Italy, Biography: arts & entertainment, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music