mozart & ME
“mozart & ME” The Low-down on Lorenzo Da Ponte. Mozart’s Librettist and Operas Most Spectacular Loser. A Festival of Facts, Fiction and Failure starring DAMIAN WHITELEY Bass and Pianist Written by MELVYN MORROW Australian Damian Whiteley, formerly of Zurich Opera and featured bass in 2004-2005 with Pinchgut Opera in Sydney plays the 260 year old librettist and scoundrel, Lorenzo Da Ponte. 260 years old? Why not? Da Ponte lived off his wits to be 89, so with his Bass Instinct, rather than make death a career move, he moved to Hollywood where he is now making an operatic road movie about his life. And what a life! If it was an opera plot, no one would believe it. A Jew who converted to Christianity, became a priest, was defrocked, played the violin in a Venice brothel and was a friend of Casanova, Da Ponte moved from country to country around Europe (often not a moment too soon) and wrote the librettos for Mozarts Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte. He had a penchant for poetry and eighteen year old girls. He collaborated with Salieri and wrote the screenplay of his life, only to have Hollywood choose Peter Shaffers Mozart pic, Amadeus. He made and lost a fortune as an opera impresario in London. He devised the first Juke-box Opera. He escaped creditors to America where he became the only person in history to have lost money selling alcohol. He became the first Professor of Italian in America for which he was paid not a cent and never had a single student …
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www.ambushentertainment.com Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, a woman convinces her boyfriend they should sell their baby on the black market. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they’ve chosen turns out to have an agenda of their own. Best Actress – Miranda Bailey Philadelphia First Glance Film Festival Directed by Paul Holahan Screenplay by: Brooke Purdy Produced by: Julie Sandor, Francey Grace Executive Producer: Matthew Leutwyler Distributed by: New Films Starring: Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Miranda Bailey, Waylon Payne www.ambushentertainment.com
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