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Da Ponte

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Da Pon·te  (d pnt, dä pnt), Lorenzo 1749-1838.
Italian-born American poet and educator who wrote librettos for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan Tutte (1790).


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Seeing Figaro kiss the hand of his master's wife, to say nothing of watching the page Cherubino smooch with her, subverts what Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte intended.
These days I would make a rather deviant [sic] claim for the Libertine Reader: I'd say that unless you can respond to such works as those in this volume, you will probably fail to understand and enjoy the Da Ponte operas of Mozart, the paintings of Fragonard and Watteau, and ultimately the novels of Stendhal.
The contract with Concessionaria da Ponte Rio-Niteroi S/A will be the first ETC system ever implemented in Brazil.
 
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