Mozart: Don Giovanni / DRAMA GIOCOSSO IN TWO ACTS BY LORENZO DA PONTE / Choir, Orchestra and Ballet of the National Theater in Prague / Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras / DVD

Format: NTSC

Run time 152 Minutes

UPC: 9120005650732

• COMPOSER:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   
• LIBRETTIST:Lorenzo da Ponte
   
• CREATION DATE:1787
   
• CREATION PLACE:Czech republic
   
• ACTS NUMBER:2
   
• REFERENCE:K.527
   
• ORIGINAL LANGUAGE:Italian
   
• OPERA HOUSE OF ORIGINAL PRODUCTION:Théâtre Tyl
   
• ORIGINAL ORCHESTRATION:2/2/2/2-2/2/3- timp-strings sur la scène:2 hautbois, 2 cors, quintette à cordes(N°13)2 trombones (récit. no 22)2 hautbois, 2 clarinettes, 2 bassons,2 cors, violoncelle (no 24)

Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [dɔn dʒoˈvanni]; 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. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as opera buffa). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".