Don Giovanni Character Analysis

Don Giovani Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. This opera appeared at the original National Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. Don Giovanni is a seductive but ruthless nobleman who will stop at nothing to satisfy his sexual appetite. Don Giovanni’s comic servant, Leporello, is a grumbling accomplice who dreams of being in his master’s place. In this excerpt the Don attempts to rape a young noblewoman, Donna Anna; her father, the Commendatore (Commandant), challenges him to a duel. Don Giovanni kills the old man. (Kamien, 2015)

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His wife would forgive him for his philander with servant girls but not with "educated or artistic"(Stafford 119) (Paumgartner, Mozart, 273). As this showed the sexual freedom of the 18th century Italy, it was quite common to have extra marital affairs for both men and women. Discretion was the only rule that was demanded by the upper society to which Don Giovanni never adhered. Donna Elvira had a love-hate relationship with him. He would not have been able to access her rooms.

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I think Don Giovanni is the villain in the opera, the murderer of Donna Anna's father, and the seducer who attempts to rape every woman. Don Giovanni downgrades his social status as a nobleman with his seductive acts. In the opera, Don Giovanni attempt to seduce Donna Ana and Zerlina and he also abandons Donna Elvira. Although some may argue that Don Giovanni is a hero because he was courageous to be true to himself, the truth of the matter is that he is a coward because real man repents for his sin and real man learns from his mistake. In the last scene, when the ghost enters Don Giovanni’s chamber, the overture foreshadows Don Giovanni’s death. At first, the music makes me feel like something horrible is coming up. Then the dynamic of the

Giving Character's character is one of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition; another is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can't sound like Fran, and Dan can't sound like Stan. Each character must have his/her own traits. Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni, provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast.

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To begin, a Shakespearean villain is stereotyped as: an outsider, someone who feels the need for revenge, and someone who spends time plotting his evil actions. All of these elements can be found within Much Ado About Nothing’s Don John.

The first conflict that arises in the short story is the internal conflict of Giovanni. Giovanni moves from his home in order to study at the University of Padua and sees Beatrice Rappaccini underneath the window of his new home. The conflict Giovanni faces stems from his affection and blooming love for Beatrice. Giovanni sees Beatrice’s beauty as “brilliant, so vivid in its character, that she glowed amid the sunlight” (pg. 7). However, her beauty is rivaled by her horror. Whenever a creature is near her breath, it dies. Giovanni begins questioning whether or not loving Beatrice is a wise decision. Her horror keeps him at bay while her beauty and her personality draw him in closer.

On top of that, there is Leporello, Don Giovanni’s servant who is by far the most comical character and a true basso buffo: he takes part in numerous dry recitatives in which he turns to the public and expresses his opinion, as if he is aware of the comical and occasionally ridiculous situation he finds himself in and he wants to remind the audience of it. If those elements were present by themselves, the opera would be highly comical, but what we find is that Mozart and Da Ponte effectively blurred the line between opera seria and opera buffa, creating a hybrid that disregards the fact that the authors tried to paint the opera as the latter and makes it to be one of the first movements toward the Romantic era in art.