Their Forefather Was a Grocer. And Mozart’s Librettist.

In June, Alex Da Ponte drove to Sunbury, Pa., to visit the town where one of his ancestors had run a grocery store. That grocer, Lorenzo Da Ponte, also happened to be Mozart’s most important librettist, a protégé of the Austrian emperor and companion of Casanova, a priest, seducer and gambler — and...

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