The Librettist Of Venice

Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596919822

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The Librettist of Venice by Rodney Bolt Pdf

In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.

Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Impresarios
ISBN : 0747580146

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Lorenzo Da Ponte by Rodney Bolt Pdf

In 1805, the year that Wordsworth completedThe Preludeand Nelson defeated the French at Trafalgar, Lorenzo da Ponte opened a grocery shop in New York. In the first forty years of his life had been poet, priest, lover, libertine, collaborator with Salieri, librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, friend of Casanova, and a favourite of Emperor Joseph II. By the end of his life he would have founded New York's first opera house and become the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. Da Ponte lived through the period when opera came of age - when he was born, Handel was all the rage; if he had survived four more years he could have witnessed Wagner's debut - and he plotted and schemed his way through the opera worlds of both London and Vienna. This was a man who converted from Judaism to Christianity, took the cloth, was banished twice from Venice once for scandalous behaviour, and later for scurrilous versifying, who was an inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, and who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness.

Author : Sheila Hodges
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299178734

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Lorenzo Da Ponte by Sheila Hodges Pdf

Three of the greatest operas ever written—The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte—join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo 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 gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University—wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III’s London to New York City.

Author : April Fitzlyon
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780714544878

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Lorenzo Da Ponte by April Fitzlyon Pdf

This is the revised edition of April FitzLyon's celebrated biography of Mozart's librettist, who provided the brilliant, witty texts for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte. Born a Jew in the Republic of Venice, Da Ponte became a Christian before involving himself in political and amorous intrigue and having to flee, like his friend Casanova, to Vienna, pursued by both the Inquisition and jealous husbands. As court poet to Joseph II he succeeded Metastasio and worked with many composers, until his escapades forced him to move on to London, where he managed the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. After a series of financial disasters, he moved to New York, where he worked several jobs before becoming a professor at Columbia. He helped to introduce Italian opera to the USA and in old age wrote his notoriously unreliable memoirs.This fascinating portrait provides a colourful picture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life in four capitals, combining musical and literary history with an account of the social life of the period.

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520254268

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Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Ellen Rosand Pdf

"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048278983

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Memoirs by Lorenzo Da Ponte Pdf

The memoirs of the man who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's best operas.

Author : Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Librettists
ISBN : UOM:39015007950853

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Mozart's librettist by Lorenzo Da Ponte Pdf

Author : Franklin Mesa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476605371

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Opera by Franklin Mesa Pdf

This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

Author : Valeria De Lucca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190631130

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The Politics of Princely Entertainment by Valeria De Lucca Pdf

""The Politics of Princely Entertainment explores the transformations in the politics of entertainment of the Italian aristocratic classes during the second half of the seventeenth century, at a time in which profound social and cultural shifts influenced the production and consumption of music in radical ways. The emergence of commercial theaters in the 1630s in Venice and the great appeal that opera began to have on a large and international audience required the aristocracy to take up a new role within the complex network of agents responsible for the production not only of opera but of music in general. The increasing competition between commercial opera theaters, ruling courts, aristocratic families and religious institutions and the consequent professionalization of roles that previously relied solely on patronage meant that singers, poets and composers acquired unprecedented negotiating power. This books explores these questions following the journeys and ventures of two of the most prominent patrons in seventeenth-century Italy, Prince Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and his wife Maria Mancini. During the thirty years under exam, 1659-1689, the Colonna were the most influential and active agents in the musical life of Rome: they sponsored an unprecedented number of operas, serenatas, oratorios, public ceremonies and carnival parades while supporting the careers of the most prominent composers, librettists, musicians and singers of the time. Following Prince Colonna and his wife through their personal and institutional travels to Venice, Spain, as Viceroyalties of the Kingdom of Aragon, and later Naples, this book traces the journeys not only of scores and librettos, but also of the singers, composers and librettists whose art reached these far away corners of Europe, changing and transforming to serve diverse social and political purposes.""--

Author : Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780231507721

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A Short History of Opera by Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams Pdf

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.

Author : Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342970

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Inventing the Business of Opera by Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon Pdf

Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stages of Venice during the seventeenth century. All of the components necessary to opera production are highlighted, from the financial backing, to the libretto and the score, to the singers, dancers, the scenery, and the costumes.

Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521897082

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Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution by Pierpaolo Polzonetti Pdf

Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.

Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480441231

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Venice Observed by Mary McCarthy Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group takes readers on a captivating journey to one of the world’s most celebrated cities. Mary McCarthy brings her novelist’s unerring eye to a book that blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create a living portrait of “the world’s loveliest city.” Like a painter capturing the city’s essence on canvas, McCarthy uses words to create stunning visuals that bring both the old and new Venice to enchanting life. From her apartment overlooking the garden of a palazzo, McCarthy takes us into the museums and monasteries of this city of canals and gondolas, Machiavelli and Tintoretto. And she reveals some little-known facts: Venetians love pets, but prefer cats to dogs; during World War II, the Allies captured the city with a fleet of gondolas; and without Napoleon, Venice wouldn’t be what it is today. From the ancient roots of The Merchant of Venice’s pound of flesh to the quotidian details of daily life, it’s all here—the magnificent frescoes, the sublime music of Mozart, the virgins, and the saints. At once a comprehensive travelogue and a powerful piece of reportage, Venice Observed is a testimony of McCarthy’s love affair with the City of Canals. This ebook features superb color reproductions of the works of Giorgione, Veronese, Titian, Canaletto, Guardo, Bellini, and Tiepolo, and an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521823593

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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Walker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226871325

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The Man Verdi by Frank Walker Pdf

Explores the nineteenth-century Italian composer's childhood, youth, and adult relationships with relatives, students, wives, and musical colleagues