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Don Giovanni

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 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".

Infobox

Other title
Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni
Librettist
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language
Italian
Based on
The legend of Don Juan
Premiere
29 October 1787 (1787-10-29)Estates Theatre, Prague

Tables

mw- Roles, voice types, premiere casts · Roles
Don Giovanni, a young, extremely licentious nobleman
Don Giovanni, a young, extremely licentious nobleman
Role
Don Giovanni, a young, extremely licentious nobleman
Voice type
baritone
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Luigi Bassi
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Francesco Albertarelli
Il Commendatore
Il Commendatore
Role
Il Commendatore
Voice type
bass
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Giuseppe Lolli
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Francesco Bussani
Donna Anna, his daughter, promised in marriage to Don Ottavio
Donna Anna, his daughter, promised in marriage to Don Ottavio
Role
Donna Anna, his daughter, promised in marriage to Don Ottavio
Voice type
soprano
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Teresa Saporiti
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Aloysia Weber
Don Ottavio
Don Ottavio
Role
Don Ottavio
Voice type
tenor
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Antonio Baglioni
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Francesco Morella
Donna Elvira, a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni
Donna Elvira, a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni
Role
Donna Elvira, a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni
Voice type
soprano
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Katherina Micelli
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Caterina Cavalieri
Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant
Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant
Role
Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant
Voice type
bass
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Felice Ponziani
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Francesco Benucci
Masetto, a peasant, in love with Zerlina
Masetto, a peasant, in love with Zerlina
Role
Masetto, a peasant, in love with Zerlina
Voice type
bass
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Giuseppe Lolli
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Francesco Bussani
Zerlina, a peasant
Zerlina, a peasant
Role
Zerlina, a peasant
Voice type
soprano
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Caterina Bondini
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Luisa Mombelli
Chorus: peasants, servants, young ladies, musicians, demons
Chorus: peasants, servants, young ladies, musicians, demons
Role
Chorus: peasants, servants, young ladies, musicians, demons
Role
Voice type
Prague premiere cast,29 October 1787Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Vienna premiere cast,7 May 1788Conductor: W. A. Mozart
Don Giovanni, a young, extremely licentious nobleman
baritone
Luigi Bassi
Francesco Albertarelli
Il Commendatore
bass
Giuseppe Lolli
Francesco Bussani
Donna Anna, his daughter, promised in marriage to Don Ottavio
soprano
Teresa Saporiti
Aloysia Weber
Don Ottavio
tenor
Antonio Baglioni
Francesco Morella
Donna Elvira, a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni
soprano
Katherina Micelli
Caterina Cavalieri
Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant
bass
Felice Ponziani
Francesco Benucci
Masetto, a peasant, in love with Zerlina
bass
Giuseppe Lolli
Francesco Bussani
Zerlina, a peasant
soprano
Caterina Bondini
Luisa Mombelli
Chorus: peasants, servants, young ladies, musicians, demons

References

  1. The theatre is referred to as the Teatro di Praga in the libretto for the 1787 premiere (Deutsch 1965, pp. 302–303); for
    http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/Default.aspx?jz=en&dk=text.aspx&it=40&sb=0
  2. Aloysia Weber, Mozart's sister-in-law, frequently sang in his works.
  3. Caterina Cavalieri was the first Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
  4. Francesco Benucci was the first Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro.
  5. In the absence of an unambiguous indication in Da Ponte's libretto, it is reasonable to interpret this incident variousl
  6. This scene was added at the same time as the preceding Zerlina / Leporello duet, but is generally retained and sung dire
  7. Freeman 2021, pp. 284–286, points out that the purpose of excerpting music from other composer's operas is an assertion
  8. Freeman 2021, p. 287, points out that the correct translation of Donna Elvira's line Io men vado in un ritiro a finir la
  9. Leporello's F major e non voglio più servir becomes Fiorilla's A major così pien di civiltà, the music being quoted verb
  10. But not in the dinner scene; here Carnicer borrows some different tunes from Una cosa rara and Litiganti and presumably
  11. Classical Music
    https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/20-greatest-operas-all-time/
  12. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/20/top-50-operas
  13. The background of the production is summarized in Freeman 2021, pp. 131–168.
  14. The first eighteenth-century Don Juan opera produced in Europe was La pravità castigata (Prague, 1730), and the second o
  15. See Freeman 2021, p. 263, for a discussion of Da Ponte's vague specification, including a theory about why it is so vagu
  16. Mozart's letter sent to Gottfried von Jacquin, dated 15 October
  17. Deutsch 1965, p. 303.
  18. Deutsch 1965, p. 304.
  19. "OperaGlass at Opera.Stanford.Edu"
    http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/shortlib/mozaria1.html
  20. Wolfgang Plath and Wolfgang Rehm, Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie II, Werkgruppe 5, Band 17, Don Giovanni (Kassel, 1968)
  21. Freeman 2021, pp. 286–287.
  22. Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth
  23. Schneider 2021, p. [page needed].
  24. Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
    https://books.google.com/books?id=djnqB_MUJ6kC&pg=PA332
  25. Page 2 of the score at NMA
    http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/objs/ed/ucb08_68_2.jpg
  26. Casaglia 2005.
  27. Deutsch 1965, p. 313.
  28. Abert 2007, p. 1021.
    https://books.google.com/books?id=l6I6BwTMJ3sC&pg=RA1-PA1021&lpg=RA1-PA1021
  29. The Classical Mandolin
  30. Don Giovanni Schirmer piano-vocal score ISBN 079351231X, p. iv
  31. Mandolin Music, Beethoven, Hummel
    https://archive.org/stream/mandolinmusicsou00sciv/mandolinmusicsou00sciv_djvu.txt
  32. Don Giovanni
    https://doi.org/10.7916%2Fcm.v0i92.5208
  33. Mozart's Don Giovanni
    https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1051553568
  34. Opera on Screen
    https://archive.org/details/operaonscreen00citr
  35. Kierkegaard 1992, p. 135.
  36. Gounod 1970, pp. v–vi.
  37. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
  38. German Wikisource has original text related to this article: "Don Juan" (E. T. A. Hoffmann, in German)
    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/de:Don_Juan
  39. Den Danske Ordbog
    http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=leporelloliste
  40. The Interpretation of French Song
  41. Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man
  42. Abstract: 19th Century Music, Mark Everist Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
    http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ncm.2001.25.2-3.165
  43. University Musical Encyclopedia
    https://archive.org/details/universitymusic14elsogoog
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