PODCAST: The Low Down Goes to the Opera

By
Acacia O'Connor
October 22, 2018


The Cagliari Opera House, one of Italy’s most renowned opera companies, presented the first modern rendering of the opera in the Rotunda of Columbia's Low Library. In this episode of The Low Down, we take you on a trip to the opera with the works of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the author of Mozart’s most important opera librettos, and the first professor of Italian at Columbia.
 

Photo: Portrait of Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), early 19th century, oil on canvas. Artist unknown. Image courtesy of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.