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“... have given us those masterpieces of opera, officially opera buffa but in no sense merely comic. Sheila Hodges’s book naturally leans quite heavily on Da Ponte’s memoirs but her subtitle indicates her desire to put him in context. It was an almost unbelievable life, starting in a small town in the Veneto and ending in New York at a great ...”

“... extended to all fifty states, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges), so shallowly rooted in law. In the book’s acknowledgments is a tender appreciation of Machado’s wife as a person (Val Howlett, also a writer) rather than a miraculous legal entity. Inside the stories no party lines need be observed. Readers waiting ...”