2023年9月4日 · The movie features the seductive duet “Là ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni, sung in a flashback scene by a younger version of one of the major characters and the famous French opera singer who is courting her (much to the discomfort of her extremely pious father).

2022年4月17日 · There are fewer more dramatic moments in opera than the ending of Don Giovanni, when the title character refuses to repent for his sins and gets pulled down into hell by a chorus of demons. However, this showstopping coup de théâtre is in fact a footnote to the oft-overlooked actual narrative and musical climax, which…

The finale, in which Don Giovanni refuses to repent, has been a captivating philosophical and artistic topic for many writers including George Bernard Shaw, who in Man and Superman parodied the opera (with explicit mention of the Mozart score for the finale scene between the Commendatore and Don Giovanni).

As the legend goes, Don Giovanni was a libertine and a scoundrel. His list of sexual exploits is famously so long that a word was coined after his servant unfolding a seemingly endless concertina list enumerating them: the leporello.

Donna Elvira warns the couple that Giovanni is not what he seems, but she is ushered away. Alone with Ottavio, Anna realizes Giovanni is the man who attacked her. Later, Don Giovanni …

This production of Don Giovanni contains onstage gun violence and blood, as well as onstage depictions of attempted sexual assault.

2016年2月25日 · The conflict between Da Ponte’s comedic libretto and the personal life of Mozart, however, is where the brilliance of Don Giovanni resides. While this mixture of comedy and tragedy is inherent in almost all of Mozart’s mature operas, it is …

By the late 18th century, the Don Giovanni story was regarded by intellectuals as a vulgar, bawdy farce, and had the opera been intended for the sophisticates of Vienna, Mozart and Da Ponte might have chosen a different tale.

2019年11月15日 · Ben Bliss, as Don Ottavio, and Rachel Willis-Sorensen, as Donna Anna, dip their hands in the blood of the Commendatore as they perform during a dress rehearsal of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at...

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