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Mozart's

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Librettist with Max Adrian as Lorenzo da Ponte Written by CHARLES OSBORNE
Narrator MARTIN FRIEND
One of the most remarkable partnerships in musical history was that between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Within four years it produced three supreme operatic master-pieces, The Marriage of Figaro. Don Giovanni , Cosi fan tutte.
Da Ponte was an adventurer In the style of his friend Casanova. He survived Mozart by nearly 50 years and in old age produced his Memoirs, which recount some of the adventures of his long and extraordinary life He died in 1838 in New York.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Max Adrian is in ' Trelawny ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)

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Max Adrian
Narrator:
Charles Osborne
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Don Giovanni
Producer:
Alan Haydock
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Max Adrian
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