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Nov 21, 2023 · Don Giovanni is a darkly comic opera written by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Based upon the legendary exploits of the fictional hedonist Don Juan, the opera ...
Don Giovanni [1] is an Italian opera in two acts. It is about the character better known as Don Juan. The music was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte. The opera was first performed at the National Theatre in Prague on 29 October 1787. [2] It was a great success.
Taken aback, at first, Don Giovanni soon recovers himself. Turning, at bay, he defies the enraged crowd. A storm is rising without. A storm sweeps over the orchestra. Thunder growls in the basses, lightning plays on the fiddles. Don Giovanni, cool, intrepid, cuts a passage through the crowd upon which, at the same time, he hurls his contempt.
With the party in full swing, Giovanni leads Zerlina into an adjoining room. Her cries, however, bring everyone to her aid. Giovanni tries to make Leporello seem like the offending villain, but no one is taken in. The three guests unmask and Don Giovanni’s adventures seem at an end, but by a sudden intervention he once again escapes his ...
May 20, 2023 · Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
The masked trio - Donna Anna, Don Ottavio and Octavion - brace themselves before entering. At Giovanni's celebration, Zerlina's screams interrupt the dancing revelers, and Giovanni falsely accuses Masetto of attacking her. Donna Anna, Don Ottavio and Donna Elvira reveal their identities and confront Don Giovanni, who manages to escape.
Don Giovanni kills him and flees with Leporello. Donna Anna, having run for help, returns with her fiancée, Don Ottavio, only to find her father murdered. Devastated, she demands that Don Ottavio find vengeance against the man and bring him to justice (Ma qual mai s’offre). In a square in Seville, Giovanni and Leporello come across a woman ...
