Mozart’s Don Giovanni is among the greatest works in the operatic repertoire, one of three he wrote in collaboration with librettist Lorenzo DaPonte in the late 1780s. The opera is based on Tirso de Molina’s play The Playboy of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630). In this familiar version of the Don Juan legend, the sexually promiscuous nobleman leaves c…
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