Don Giovanni Tenorio
Music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga · libretto by Giovanni Bertati · premiered 1787 · at Teatro San Moisè
Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra, (English: Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest) also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio is a one-act opera (dramma giocoso) by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 5 February 1787, the same day as Francesco Gardi's opera Don Giovanni in the same city at the Teatro San Samuele. The libretto, by Giovanni Bertati, is based on the legend of Don Juan as told by Tirso de Molina in his play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (c. 1630), leading to comparisons with Mozart's Don Giovanni which had its premiere later in 1787. Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, certainly knew the earlier opera. Gazzaniga's work is much shorter than Mozart's, and originally formed part of a double-bill with another piece, Il capriccio drammatico.
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About the Composer
Giuseppe Gazzaniga (5 October 1743 – 1 February 1818) was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas, particularly opera buffa.
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Other Operas by Giuseppe Gazzaniga
- Il barone di Trocchia (1768)