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Don Giovanni
Sign in to saveAlso known as Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, Don Juan, K. 527
opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni is an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that tells the story of a seductive nobleman and his eventual downfall. It remains one of the most performed and celebrated operas in the world, valued for Mozart's brilliant music and its exploration of themes like desire, morality, and consequences.
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- Commons category
- Don Giovanni
- native label
- Don Giovanni ossia Il dissoluto punito
- catalog code
- 527
- date of first performance
- 1787-10-29
- title
- Il dissoluto punito, ossia: il Don Giovanni
- inception
- 1787-00-00
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- publication date
- 1787-00-00
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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".
Composition and premiere