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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote a long essay in his book Enten – Eller in which he argues, writing under the pseudonym of his character "A", that "among all classic works Don Giovanni stands highest." [24] Charles Gounod wrote that Mozart's Don Giovanni is "a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection."
Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra, [1] (English: Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest) also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio [2] is a one-act opera (dramma giocoso) by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga.
He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University , and with Manuel Garcia , the first to introduce Italian opera to America.
Don Giovanni (1787); Così fan tutte (1790). All created for the Court Opera in Vienna, they are in Italian, the language considered most suitable for opera at the time, and are Mozart’s most popular operas apart from Die Entführung aus dem Serail and The Magic Flute, composed on German libretti in the Singspiel genre.
The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte, followed by Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.
Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and is one of Mozart's most famous and popular arias. It is sung by Don Giovanni's servant Leporello to Elvira during act 1 of the opera. [1]
“Don Giovanni” opens May 5 for eight performances, with the May 20 matinee to be broadcast in movie theaters live in HD. Besides Mattei, the singers include sopranos Federica Lombardi as Donna ...
Righini is the creator of the second opera on the theme of Don Giovanni, composed for the Prague stage. [2] He is considered a skillful, but not very original composer, who often took advantage of the innovations of other composers. [2] His Don Giovanni was performed in 1997 at the Dejvické divadlo in Prague, and in 2003 at the Městské ...