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    The play Don Giovanni directed by Peter Sellers shares many parallels to Moliere’s comedy Don Juan. Additionally, Don Juan is an aristocratic rebel against God, religion, and morality. Don Juan is a masterful manipulator of men and women. Although Don Juan is a comedy, it is grounded in realistic dramatic also relational scenarios that happen today. However, in the play Don Giovanni, the character is darker and more sinister. Moreover, the setting is far from the aristocracy. The cityscape began

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    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

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene (1787). 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.

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    Don Giovanni is a one-of-a-kind character, yet so predictable living a certain lifestyle, almost to the point of being mysterious. It is the enlightenment era however, where a lot of impossibilities were being explored, and presented to the public in different forms, including this opera, Don Giovanni. Although Don Giovanni seems like a total embodiment of immorality, he nevertheless carries some admirable principles, sparkling the enlightenment idea through the story of Don Giovanni. As we all

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    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

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    Phantom of the Opera is the longest running musical to date and has become one of the most beloved and well known musicals on Broadway. The musical was inspired and loosely based on the characters and the story of the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This CD is the original London cast which means that this recording is with the first cast that ever preformed the musical with the actors that created the parts. The musical was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber who is one of the

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    In his opera buffa, Don Giovanni, Mozart depicts Don Giovanni as a libertine and philanderer. At the start of Act I, Scene III of the opera, there is a festive peasant wedding, an ensemble between the bride, Zerlina, the groom, Masetto, and the chorus, which consists of the other peasants, all singing about the joys of marriage. Don Giovanni, a nobleman, and his manservant, Leporello, interrupts the wedding, and invites everyone to his villa. He even forces Masetto to go the villa too, leaving Zerlina

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    Essay On Amadeus

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    In Amadeus, the prelude of the opera “Don Giovanni” composed by Mozart after the death of Leopold Mozart – Mozart’s father – refers the relationship between Mozart and Leopold and the scheme of Salieri foreshadowing the death of Mozart. For one thing, the opera “Don Giovanni” explains the abnormal relationship between Mozart and his father. In the film, Mozart is illustrated as the character which always

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    Don Giovanni Analysis

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    Professor Heywood MUSC 131 29 October 2017 W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni 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

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    The Don Giovanni Opera

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    Don Giovanni is a three-hour long opera composed by Mozart and scripted by Da Ponte that had its premiere in Prague in 1787 (the final version premiered in Vienna in 1788). It is and it has always been highly popular, as it stands now as the 10th most performed opera in history1 and it is notorious for its smooth superposition of comical and tragical elements as well as for its appealing redesign of Don Juan2 as an embodiment of freedom (as shown by his refusal to adhere to social norms and his arrogant

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