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29 October 1787 (1787-10-29) Estates Theatre, Prague. Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; Vienna (1788) 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.
Don Juan. Portrait of Wilhelm Troszel as Don Juan, by Józef Simmler, 1846. Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de ...
Description. The piece begins with music sung by the Commendatore, both from the graveyard scene where he threatens Don Giovanni (" Di rider finirai pria dell'aurora! Ribaldo audace! Lascia a' morti la pace! " — " Your laughter will not last, even till morning. Leave the dead in peace! ") and from the finale where he condemns Don Giovanni to ...
Madamina, il catalogo è questo. " 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]
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786.
Don Juan, Op. 20, is a tone poem in E major for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. The work is based on Don Juans Ende , a play derived from an unfinished 1844 retelling of the tale by poet Nikolaus Lenau after the Don Juan legend which originated in Renaissance -era Spain. [ 1 ]
Zerlina. "Là ci darem la mano", number 7 in the score, starts in the key of A major with a tempo indication of andante and a time signature of 2/4. The vocal range for Don Giovanni covers E 3 to E 4, Zerlina's range covers E 4 to F ♯5. The piece is labelled a "duettino", a "little duet". This may be because the two roles sing only as a duet ...
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. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 5 February 1787, the same day as Francesco Gardi's [ it] opera Don ...