DON GIOVANNI

Composer: WOLFGANG A MADE US MOZART Book by LORENZO DA PONTE: First performance: National Theatre, Prague, October 28, 1787 2 acts. PATTERNED AFTER the career of the legendary Don Juan this is the story of Don Giovanni who, with his servant, Leporello, enter the house of the Commend a tore of Seville to get his daughter, Donna Anna, with whom the Don for the She screams for help and in escaping the Don kills the moment is enamoured. As he leaves he is intercepted by Donna Elvira, a woman he Commend a tore. has wronged. As the Don dashes away Leporello shocks her with a listing of the Don’s endle affairs. Don Giovanni, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Zerlina, peasant fiancée of Masetto, and has broken up her wedding party in his attempt to seduce her. But even the party he gives at his home for peasantry and gentry alike is not succe ful. Donna Elvira protects the girl. Later, after asking the statue of the dead Commend a tore to dine with him, he is warned by Donna Elvira, still faithful to him, of dangers about to beset him. Leporello arrives screaming that the statue of the Commend a tore is about to The Don does not flee but grasps the hand of the statue and enter the room. is hurled into Hell which opens at the Commend a tore’s feet.