The Don Giovanni Opera

Throughout some of the readings, there is an underlying Religious or Good vs. Evil theme developing through the text. Beginning with the Marble Statue, the characters Fortunato and Donati could be compared to an angel and a demon, respectively. Florio, a puerile nobleman, peregrinating to the city of Lucca meets a stranger taking the same path as him and they commence a cordial conversation. In the commencement of the story, Florio is a shy and bashful adolescent man. Throughout the story he develops into a more candid, outgoing person as he finds himself. His budding comity with Fortunato, the stranger he met peregrinating to Lucca, avails him to blossom from being an introvert to becoming an extrovert. Fortunato’s character has a deeper

Don Giovanni is an operatic character that plays a womanizer during the 17th century. This was a play first performed in 1789, a successful creation of Mozart and DaPonte. During the play, Don Giovanni represents a sociopath that is lead by his incredible weakness for women. This weakness leads him into darkness, complete with seduction, and murder. Since the beginning, many people have seen Don Giovanni as a hero but many others have considered him a villain. The actions of Don Giovanni are not completely heroic neither are they totally villainous. But is noticeable that throughout the play he is more a hero than a villain.

Opera Buffa refers to a genre of opera that is more comical in nature, and was written for the lower-echelon of people… i.e. ‘peasants’. Mozart authored many of these vaudevilles in order to support himself when times were not great. Typically, Opera Buffas were light-hearted and sweet with happy endings, a polar opposite of the tone of Don Giovanni. A non-Mozart example is: “Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s La serva padrona”.

Mozart’s Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece that is full of classical and legendary tension that still exists today. The music conveys and describes important principles of human personality and character (Ford 9). Don Giovanni is one of the best pieces by Mozart, and it is still a masterpiece in the lyric theater. It was composed in 1787 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Don Giovanni was produced during the classical period; intellectually the era is also known as the Age of enlightenment (Fisher 14). During the period, European thinkers embraced the idea of social justice and the value of ordinary individuals. They also believed in the power of individual

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.

The piece is about love, betrayal, death and anguish. You can see in Figure 1 the figured bass and singular bass line. This is an example of baroque notation and the freedom that the accompanist had in harmonization and improvisation. Another well-known solo madrigal of the Baroque era is Giulio Caccini’s 1602 piece ‘Amarilli mia bella’ from Le nuove musiche. Caccini spent most of his life in Florence, Italy – said to be the heart of Baroque music. He spent a lot of his time as not just a composer and singer of the Medici court, but also a spy for the youngest son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pietro de’Medici. Caccini was supported by other Florentine nobles, one being Giovanni de’Bardi – leader of the Florentine Camerata . ‘Amarilli, mia bella’ is an emotive song expressing love for the singer’s betrothed, Amarilli. Based on the Greek myth of Amaryllis, falling in love with Alteus, a shepherd. Alteus, however, is only interested in the mountainside flowers she is picking and says he can only fall in love with a girl who brings him a new flower. The story goes Amaryllis takes the advice of the Delphi Oracle, each night waiting on Alteus’ doorstep, stabbing

Don Giovanni and Its Relations to Current World Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Mozart is one of the finest and well written ophera piece that introduces a fallen character who seduces women only for his own good and eventually receives eternal punishment for his misbehaviour. It is hard to miss that the purpose of this opera is to teach how its sinful to mistreat any subject of God. Anyone who sin will get punish and everyone who seek for justice will receive their just. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Mozart portrays how people need to respect each others, which people seem to continually fail even in the modern days.

In the opinion of this reader, the central conflict – the relation between the protagonist and antagonist usually(Abrams 225) - in the tale is an internal one within Giovanni between his love for Beatrice and his Puritan belief in the depravity of man. His love for the beautiful daughter blinds him to various indications of her poisonous nature, to the evil nature of her father and to the intent of her father to involve Giovanni as a

One of the reason that Mozart’s music still so popular even today simply because if you listen attentively to a skilled performance you will find that your experience was pleasant . You will enjoy it without the need of any training whatsoever even if you have different culture and background. Mozart’s music has been deeply influential in almost every culture, his performance has been witnessed eveywhere.I beleive the subtleties and nuances are what make his music so great and appreciable.They convey and evoke such powerful emotions,that can reach to almost anybody.Also his popularity comes from the diversity of his work, which included opera, symphonies, some choral compositions and concertos. At that time he was the perfect exemple of

In Guido’s real life it is completely evident a man’s paranoid! It consists in dealing with a beautiful, intelligent, and sophisticated wife, Luisa, with whom he is unfortunately estranged and he cannot communicate; a cheap, but volcanic mistress, Carla, whom is his sexual appetite and libido’s satisfier; a muse, a comforting and a refined and breath-taking woman, Claudia, whom is a movie character. The “muse” is built only by his tired mind and in his imagination, according to the fact that Claudia technically is a below average kind of woman. Also the writer, technicians, actors, doctor, producer, and his sagacious critic, from whom he is constantly advised, are mostly around him!

When he wrote Il ditto nell’occhio, mounted by Fo to “[take] advantage of a slight relaxation in censorship to “attack those myths in Italian life which, as he said, Fascism has imposed and Christian Democracy has preserved”. This was before 1959. During the production time of Il ditto nell’occhio, Dario Fo was influenced by and learned from Jaques Lecoq, who had moved to Italy and “staged his first pantomimes at the university theatre in Padua, while in the city markets he discovered Commedia dell'Arte”.4

Music helps to describe the characters, “Every character stands out in the musical picture.”[3] It can be an indication of how he is portrayed as a hero. Mozart shows Don Giovanni as courageous, strong and confident. When analyzing music, it can notice that Giovanni gets great music. “Mozart provides Don Giovanni with an aria that explicitly embraces his philosophy of enjoying life: the famous champagne aria, "Finch' han dal vino."”[2] This music is presented as full of life and celebration which means that Don is shown as the force of life. It can be also be deduced who Don is by contrasting his character with other’s. “Mozart also tells us who Don Giovanni is by telling us who he is not.”[3] Leporello is depicted as a character who is a whiner, coward, and a follower. In one of the final

To look onto the plot of Don Giovanni in the point-of-view of the current 21st century, many people are angered by the character of Don Giovanni. He is a womanizer who takes advantage of women sexually and emotionally. By reason of, there is a growing trend of women in this century being valued as equal to men. Thus, they can make their own educated and responsible decision on promiscuity due to options of contraceptives and aws like child support. However, women in the time of Mozart did not have this same ability to be independent thinkers and these opportunities. Therefore, Don Giovanni is a predator who is only thinking of himself because he will not have to endure any punishment for his action, especially because he is an arrogant noble.

Firstly, Antonio takes on the role as a victim with his friends to buy sympathy because he does not understand his position in the community. When Antonio opens the play, he speaks about his sadness and his friends Salario and Salanio try to decipher why he is upset. Antonio’s friends claim that he is sad because of his business is not doing well; instead,