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...Lorenzo da Ponte was not only a fop but a flop. As Poet to the Imperial Theaters in Vienna, it was his duty to write librettos for "great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet...
Priest to Poet. He was born (1749) in the Venetian town of Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto). His parents were Jews; his original name was Emanuele Conegliano. But his father changed the family faith, and Emanuele took the names of his baptizer. Bishop Lorenzo da Ponte. Aided by the bishop. Da Ponte became a Roman Catholic deacon...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Aïda, with Stella, Thebom, Baum, London...
Judy's papa-in-law (Salvatore Baccaloni) is a staunch Roman Catholic who considers the child she is carrying to be illegitimate because she and Nick were not married in church. "Whatsamatta?" he bellows. "You don' lika da Pope?" Sure enough, after rollicking through the freshest, funniest, most healthily grown-up comedy that Hollywood has produced in years, Judy finds herself entering a maternity ward in her wedding dress...
...fundamentally, he is a brother-under-the-skin to followers, say, of the Brooklyn Dodgers. All he wants is to win. He will not say of a losing coach, 'Trow da bum out,' but he will remark firmly, 'Kindly show the gentleman to the door...