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Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , 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 piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
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 ]
Don Juan is a musical written by Félix Gray in 2003. Don Juan was directed by Gilles Maheu and presented in Canada (mainly Quebec and Ottawa) in 2004 and in France in 2005 with a total of 600,000 viewers worldwide.
Don Juan is a 1950 Spanish romantic adventure film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and starring António Vilar, Annabella and María Rosa Salgado. It is based on the legend of Don Juan. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was shot at the Estudios Ballesteros in Madrid.
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Don Juan, an Austrian musical film directed by Walter Kolm-Veltée; Don Juan, a French-Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by John Berry; Don Juan, a Czechoslovak short film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer; Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman, a 1973 French-Italian film with Brigitte Bardot
Don Juan has spawned many different interpretations, although most critics accept that the story plays out on two "diametrically opposed planes"; [2] that of the opera and that of the real world outside. These two worlds cross over when Donna Anna appears to the narrator in his box, and the narrator finds himself implicated in the drama himself.