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2024-08-17 14:00:38

Project Gutenberg on Nostr: Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest Lorenzo Da Ponte died #OTD ...

Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest Lorenzo Da Ponte died #OTD in 1838.

He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University, and with Manuel Garcia, the first to introduce Italian opera to America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte

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