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).

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