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  • Steptoe, Anthony. He is most famous for having written the librettos to three of Mozart's operas, Le nozze di Figaro,Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. A cenotaph to Da Ponte's memory is found at Calvary. Appointed a professor at what is now Columbia University in 1826, he was the first faculty member to have been born Jewish and ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.

    translation of the libretto Tarare by Beaumarchais)—composer Antonio Salieri

  • Il Talismano (1788, from Carlo Goldoni)—composer Antonio Salieri
  • Il Bertoldo (1788)—composer Antonio Brunetti
  • L'Ape musicale (1789)—Pasticcio of works by various composers
  • Il Pastor fido (1789, from the pastoral by Giovanni Battista Guarini)—composer Antonio Salieri
  • La Cifra (1789)—composer Antonio Salieri
  • Così fan tutte (1789/90)—composer Mozart
  • La Caffettiera bizzarra (1790)—composer Joseph Weigl
  • La Capricciosa corretta (1795)—composer Vicente Martín y Soler
  • Antigona (1796)—composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
  • Il consiglio imprudente (1796)—composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
  • Merope (1797)—composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
  • Cinna (1798)—composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
  • Armida (1802)—composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
  • La Grotta di Calipso (1803)—composer Peter von Winter
  • Il Trionfo dell'amor fraterno (1804)—composer Peter von Winter
  • Il Ratto di Proserpina (1804)—composer Peter von Winter
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      New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopediastandards. The Royal Opera House has surmised: "Da Ponte’s ease at writing in verse, his wit and his brilliance at languages made him the ideal librettist, and are evident in the brilliant librettos he wrote for Mozart".

      Following his mother's demise in 1754, his father converted to Catholicism with his children. He taught Italian literature at Columbia University in New York City, becoming the first Catholic priest to hold a university post. Former Mayor Philip Hone hailed it as, "the neatest and most beautiful theater in the United States, and (enthusiastically if naively) unsurpassed in Europe".

      His friend, Clement C. Moore, correctly predicted that, "so long as there remains a spark of taste among us for belles lettres, the name of Da Ponte will be held in veneration".

    Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano (March 10, 1749 – August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto).

    During 1800, he was imprisoned for his debts. Leaving Venice, Da Ponte tried to find work in Dresden but failed, then in 1781, moved to Vienna, where he later collaborated with Mozart and Antonio Salieri. His attempt to establish an Opera company in New York also floundered. In London, he struggled to make ends meet as a teacher and a grocer before securing a position as librettist to the King's Theatre in 1803.

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  • Da Ponte, Lorenzo, "Libretti londinesi" a cura di Lorenzo della Chà, Milano: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 2007.

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    The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte—Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.