Mozart's opera about the famous Don Juan comes to life in this dark opera with a sensational ending. Don Giovanni is an insatiable lover who just can't stop with one woman. Will his philandering ways catch up with him?

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) that premiered at the original National Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. The opera’s subject is Don Juan, the notorious libertine of fiction, and his eventual descent into hell. For Mozart, it was an unusually intense work, and it was not entirely understood in his own time.  READ MORE ON BRITANNICA

SETTING

As Sophia from the Golden Girls says “picture it” Don Giovanni is set in and around Seville (now Sevilla), Spain, in the 17th century.

ACT 1: Scene 1. In the garden outside the Commandant’s mansion.

           Scene 2. Early morning the next day, in a square outside                              Seville

           Scene 3. Outside a tavern in the countryside near DG’s                                castle.

           Scene 4. In the garden outside Don Giovanni’s castle.

           Scene 5. Inside the ballroom of Don Giovanni’s castle.

ACT 2: Scene 1. Outside Donna Elvira’s house.

            Scene 2. A dark courtyard by Donna Anna’s house.

            Scene 3. A church graveyard.

            Scene 4. Inside Donna Anna’s house.

            Scene 5. Dining hall inside Don Giovanni’s castle.

EPILOGUE: Don Giovanni’s dining hall, a few minutes later.

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