Who was Lorenzo da Ponte?
a. the author of the play The Marriage of Figaro
b. a Venetian adventurer whose life provided the model for Leporello in Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni
c. Mozart’s principle librettist during the 1780s
d. the archbishop of Salzburg who didn’t recognize Mozart’s genius and treated him like a hired servant
e. all of the above
ANSWER: c
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