Don Giovanni
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte · premiered 1787 · at Estates Theatre
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; full title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally 'The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as opera buffa). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theatre (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".
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About the Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Idomeneo (1705)
- Apollo et Hyacinthus (1767)
- Ascanio in Alba (1771)
- Il sogno di Scipione (1772)
- Il re pastore (1775)
- Alexandre et Roxane (1778)
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)
- Da Ponte operas (1786)