Giovanni Sforza

Don Juan, the Trickster of Seville, his name says it all. Don Juan is a charming, seductive, ladies man who thrives off of seducing women and will do anything and everything to do so. His love for romance and women and his lack of moral obligations make him a guy that parents warn their daughters about. Don Juan is the ultimate bad boy when it comes to love and getting what he wants. Not only is he a womanizer, but a true representation of the wages of sin. Don Juan lives his life as if he is untouchable

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

Annotation: The Bell Tower This story was one that had a specific theme, in my opinion- do not overlook “minor” errors. Bannadonna was an incredibly determined and ambitious engineer of sorts who was charged with building a bell tower in a certain town in Italy. He made a grand bell tower, but that wasn’t enough for him. He also decided to build a type of automaton that would ring the bell for the people on the hour. In the end, the automaton wound up killing Bannadonna because of its loyalty to

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed The Marriage of Figaro in 1786. For this assignment, the focus was mainly on the first act of The Marriage of Figaro. The excerpt given was divided into two main sections. First, I would like to expand on the opera as a whole. Next, I will discuss the first section given. Then, I will discuss the second. The entire opera is known as an opera buffa, which is a comedic opera. This was a very common opera genre in the classical era. The Marriage of Figaro is a perfect

Don Giovanni is an opera performed by Mozart where the main character Don Giovanni murders a man, seduces women, and in the end receives his awaiting fate. The sextet, which is when the remaining of the characters sing, takes place at the finale of the opera. “Everybody else runs onstage…and there is a quick lively finale, where each character announces what he or she will do next—find a new master, join a convent, get married. That, they sing, is the end for those who do evil.” (Pg. 199). This finale

Homework #09 1. What is the form of a madrigal, and how does the form of a madrigal relate to the text? First of all, it is important to note that there are two different types of madrigals, and both forms of it are truly quite different in style. Originally, the madrigal was a type of 14th century Italian secular song that implemented two or three voices, “setting poems comprising three-lines stanzas with a melismatic upper part and a concluding ritornello.” On the other hand, the

Produced by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, Don Giovanni is regarded as one the best operas ever made. The piece is based on the legend of Don Juan, an illusory libertine and seducer of women (Kerns, 2010). At first, Mozart’s opera seems more like a story of the romantic adventures of a dissolute nobleman and his disgrace. However, there is much more to Don Giovanni than just a series of events and serious laughs, just as the protagonist is much more than a notorious, single-minded, and unprincipled

Even though Dante and Chaucer never met, Dante having died 19 years before Chaucer was born, Dante inadvertently became Chaucer’s life long mentor. Dante’s severe spirit turned out to be far more harsh than Chaucer’s nature, however Dante’s protégé, Boccaccio, became one of Chaucer’s greatest inspirations. Looking back at both Dante and Chaucer’s works, experts now see striking similarities in their writing. Whether Chaucer ever meant to use Dante’s materials or not, he is now closely compared with

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart Lydia Molina Mr. Dresser General Music 27 May, 2015 Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known for his string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas, he helped shape classical music as it is today. “Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing many instruments at age six. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European

If asked to perform a task or to accept a belief as the truth despite the asker’s justification contradicting the obvious, most people would laugh at the foolishness of such a request. After all, how can one be expected to wholeheartedly believe an argument when all evidence is pointing the other way? When told that a brown, oval-shaped object with white lace is a basketball, would one blindly submit to this new definition of a football without demanding evidence for the person’s claim? A similar