Lorenzo Da Ponte - Works

Works

  • Opera libretti:
    • La Scuola de' gelosi (1783) – composer Antonio Salieri
    • Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) – composer Antonio Salieri
    • Il burbero di buon cuore (1786, from the play by Carlo Goldoni) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
    • Il Demogorgone ovvero Il filosofo confuso (1786) – composer Vincenzo Righini
    • Il finto cieco (1786) – composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga
    • Le nozze di Figaro (1786, from the play by Pierre Beaumarchais) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Una cosa rara (1786, from the comedy La Luna della Sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
    • Gli equivoci (1786) – composer Stephen Storace
    • L'arbore di Diana (1787) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
    • Il dissoluto punito o sia Il Don Giovanni (1787, from the opera by Giuseppe Gazzaniga) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Axur, re d'Ormus (1787/88, translation of the libretto Tarare by Pierre Beaumarchais) – composer Antonio Salieri
    • Il Talismano (1788, from Carlo Goldoni) – composer Antonio Salieri
    • Il Bertoldo (1788) – composer Antonio Brunetti (it)
    • 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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • La Caffettiera bizzarra (1790) – composer Joseph Weigl
    • La Capricciosa corretta (1795) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
    • Antigona (1796) – composer 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 Winter
    • Il trionfo dell'amor fraterno (1804) – composer Peter Winter
    • Il ratto di Proserpina (1804) – composer Peter Winter
  • Cantatas and oratorios:
    • Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia (1785) – composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri and "Cornetti" (lost)
    • Il Davidde (1791) – Pasticcio from works by various composers
    • Hymn to America – composer Antonio Bagioli
  • Poetry:
    • Letter of complaint in blank verse to Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
    • 18 sonnets in commemoration of his wife (1832)
  • Other
    • translations from English into Italian.
    • several books of elementary instruction in the Italian language
    • Memorie (autobiography)
    • History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (2 vols., 1833).

Read more about this topic:  Lorenzo Da Ponte

Famous quotes containing the word works:

    “We all agree now—by “we” I mean intelligent people under sixty—that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Unluckily, the matter does not end there: a rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
    —Clive Bell (1881–1962)

    “It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any other place.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    “I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.”
    —Richard Cobden (1804–1865)