Sep 13th, 2008 · The novelist has turned The Bonesetter's Daughter into an opera, which has its premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Saturday. Transforming the book into a libretto wasn't easy for Tan, nor was resurfacing the painful stories of her family's past.
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Jul 28th, 2006 · Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos for Don Giovanni and other Mozart operas. The Venice-born writer helped bring the Mozart's works to life, seeming to know exactly what the composer wanted to say, the author of a new Da Ponte biography says.
Keywords: Writer · Opera · Composing · Mozart · poet · Biography · Venice · libretto · Librettist · Lorenzo Da Ponte · Don Giovanni · Da Ponte
