Mozart recorded the completion of the opera on 28 October. The score was completed on 28 or 29 October 1787. As the production was not ready Le nozze di Figaro was substituted instead. ĭon Giovanni was planned to premiere on 14 October 1787 for Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria’s visit. For Bertati, the setting was Villena, Spain, while Da Ponte uses a "city in Spain". Two important elements he copied were opening the drama with the murder of the Commendatore, and not specifying Seville as the setting. Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto is based on Giovanni Bertati's for the opera Don Giovanni Tenorio, which premiered in Venice early in 1787. The subject may have been chosen due to the genre of eighteenth-century Don Juan opera having originated in Prague. The opera was commissioned after the success of Mozart's trip to Prague in January and February 1787. The Estates Theatre in Prague, the venue of the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787 A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it has been described by critic Fiona Maddocks as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with libretti by Ponte". Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.ĭon Giovanni is generally regarded as one of Mozart's supreme achievements and one of the greatest operas of all time, and it has proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer, written by Tirso de Molina. 527 complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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