"and Venetian women. The statue suddenly arrives and drags Don Giovanni to his death. Ottavio and the women enter. Pasquariello and Lanterna describe Giovanni's fate to them. The opera ends as all rejoice at his downfall. Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Orchestra e coro della RCA Italiana Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Kammerchor Stuttgart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Don Giovanni Tenorio , (English: ""Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest"") also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio (""tenorio"" is a Spanish word for ""seducer""). The opera appeared the same year as Mozart's version. It is the most famous opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga."
"Felice Lattuada Felice Lattuada (; 5 February 1882 - 2 November 1962) was an Italian composer. Lattuada was born at Caselle di Morimondo, near Milan. In his early adulthood he worked as a school teacher and was a self-taught amateur composer. That changed when he entered the Milan Conservatory in 1907. He studied composition there under V. Ferroni for five years, graduating in 1912. Among his works are several orchestral and chamber music pieces written in a strongly lyrical and expressive character derived from the late-Romantic tradition. He also wrote several works for the stage including ""Don Giovanni"", which won"
"Lorenzo Da Ponte Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 174917 August 1838) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas, ""Don Giovanni"", ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and ""Così fan tutte"". Lorenzo Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano in 1749 in Ceneda, in the Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy). He was Jewish by birth, the eldest of three sons. In 1764, his father, Geronimo Conegliano, then a widower, converted himself and his family to Roman Catholicism in order to"
"Don Pasquale Don Pasquale () is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera ""Ser Marcantonio"" written in 1810 but, on the published libretto, the author appears as ""M.A."" Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century, but as Herbert"
"and he led the operation of theatres in Berlin and Potsdam. He also composed grand operas for local theatres, often to the libretti of Antonio De' Filistri. He died in Bologna. Beethoven wrote Vierundzwanzig Variationen über die Ariette „Venni Amore“ von Vincenzo Righini in D-Dur WoO 65. Righini is the creator of the second opera on the theme of Don Giovanni, composed for the Prague stage. He is considered a skillful, but not very original composer, who often took advantage of the innovations of other composers. His ""Don Giovanni"" was performed in 1997 at the ""Dejvické divadlo"" in Prague, and"
"early stages of their collaboration, though he wrote to family and friends that the composer continually pressed him to work faster. Notes Sources Giovanni Ruffini Giovanni Ruffini (1807 in Genoa – 1881) was an Italian poet of the early 19th century. He is chiefly known for having written the draft of the libretto of the opera ""Don Pasquale"" for its composer Gaetano Donizetti. Ruffini had been condemned to death as an enemy of the state and was living in exile in Paris in 1842 when it was suggested to him by Jules Janin (newly appointed director of ""Théâtre-Italien"") that he"
"to Mozart's esteem for Benucci: The ""electric"" moment involved a rising major third near the top of Benucci's range, a musical gesture that Link sees as having been later repeated in other music composed for Benucci, by Mozart as well as Salieri. ""Don Giovanni"" (1787) was not premiered in Vienna but in Prague. For the subsequent Vienna premiere (1788) Benucci took the role of Leporello. Mozart wrote three new numbers for the Vienna version, including the duet """", K. 540b, which Benucci performed with the soprano Luisa Laschi-Mombelli. ""Così fan tutte"" premiered in 1790; Benucci performed the role of Guglielmo."
"presented his first opera, ""Il barone di Trocchia"", at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1768. He would spend the next several decades writing mostly operas in Italy with the exception of a few trips to Dresden, Vienna, and Prague. His most successful opera was his ""Don Giovanni Tenorio"" written in 1787 to a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, possibly an inspiration for the libretto of Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". His last opera, ""Martino Carbonaro"", was performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice in 1801. He also wrote a symphony and three piano concertos. In 1791, he became musical director of"
"Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the ""bel canto"" opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. Donizetti's close association with the bel canto style was undoubtedly an influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. Although he did not come from a musical background, at an early age he was taken under the wing of composer Simon Mayr who had enrolled him by means of"
"Teresa Saporiti Teresa Saporiti (1763 – 17 March 1869) was an Italian operatic soprano and composer most remembered today for creating the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera ""Don Giovanni"". She was born in Milan and died there at the age of 106. In her later years, she was often referred to by her married name, Teresa Saporiti-Codecasa. Saporiti was born in Milan. Little is known about her early life, but in 1782 she and her elder sister Antonia were engaged by the impresario, Pasquale Bondini, to sing with his Italian opera company in Leipzig. According to ""The Cambridge"
"as both a composer and a performer. The great success of this visit generated a commission from the impresario Pasquale Bondini for another opera, which like ""The Marriage of Figaro"" was to have a libretto by Mozart's great collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte. Mozart came to Prague for the second time to help supervise the first performance of his opera ""Don Giovanni"". He arrived on 4 October 1787 and stayed until 12 or 13 November. The premiere of the opera was supposed to have taken place on 15 October, but could not be arranged until 29 October 1787. The work was"
"John Forsell Carl Johan Jacob Forsell (6 November 1868 – 30 May 1941), known as John Forsell, was a prominent Swedish baritone, opera administrator and teacher of voice. He was the leading baritone of the Royal Swedish Opera (RSO) from 1896–1918, and thereafter sang roles periodically with the company until his last stage performance in 1938. From 1923-1939 he served as the director of the RSO. He also sang leading roles as a guest artist with opera companies internationally, drawing particular acclaim for his portrayal of the title character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". In 1899, Forsell was awarded"
"concern to secure Da Ponte, but was worried that the Italian composers in town (e.g. Salieri) were trying to keep him for themselves. He specifically wished to create a ""buffa"" comedy opera which included a ""seria"" female part for contrast; Taruskin suggests that ""Da Ponte's special gift was that of forging this virtual smorgasbord of idioms into a vivid dramatic shape."" David Cairns examines Da Ponte's reworking of the scenario for ""Don Giovanni"", (originally written by Giovanni Bertati and performed in Venice as ""Don Giovanni Tenorio"", with music by Gazzaniga, in 1787). Cairns points out that ""the verbal borrowings are"
"Giovanni Ruffini Giovanni Ruffini (1807 in Genoa – 1881) was an Italian poet of the early 19th century. He is chiefly known for having written the draft of the libretto of the opera ""Don Pasquale"" for its composer Gaetano Donizetti. Ruffini had been condemned to death as an enemy of the state and was living in exile in Paris in 1842 when it was suggested to him by Jules Janin (newly appointed director of ""Théâtre-Italien"") that he might offer his services to Donizetti as a librettist Donizetti told him exactly what he required for his latest opera project, ""Don Pasquale"","
"Nicola De Giosa Nicola De Giosa (3 May 1819 – 7 July 1885) was an Italian composer and conductor active in Naples. He composed numerous operas, the most successful of which, ""Don Checco"" and ""Napoli di carnevale"", were in the Neapolitan ""opera buffa"" genre. His other works included sacred music and art songs. His songs were particularly popular, bringing him fame as a salon composer both in Italy and abroad. De Giosa died in Bari, the city of his birth, at the age of 66. De Giosa was born in Bari to Angelantonio and Lucia (""née"" Favia) De Giosa. He"
"orchestral pieces. Altogether, he composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces. Notes Sources Sheet music Recordings Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the ""bel canto"" opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. Donizetti's close association with the bel canto style was undoubtedly an influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in"
"Johan Reuter Johan Reuter (born 1969) is a Danish baritone and opera singer. Reuter was born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Royal Danish Opera Academy. He has been a member of the ensemble at the Royal Danish Opera since 1996. His principal appearances at the Royal Danish Opera are the Mozart roles Leporello and Don Giovanni in ""Don Giovanni"", Figaro in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Papageno in ""Die Zauberflöte"" and Guglielmo in ""Così fan tutte"", the Verdi roles Posa in ""Don Carlo"" and the title roles in ""Macbeth"" and ""Simon Boccanegra"","
"recently, the popular aria ""Caro Mio Ben"" (1783) was ascribed to Giuseppe Tommaso Giovanni Giordani. However, scholars now consider Tommaso Giordani, or his father Giuseppe Giordani senior, more likely to be the aria's composer. Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Tommaso Giovanni Giordani (December 19, 1751, Naples – January 4, 1798, Fermo) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. Giordani's parents were Domenico Giordani and Anna Maria Tosato. He studied music in Naples with Domenico Cimarosa and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. In 1774 he was appointed as music director of the chapel of the Duomo of Naples. His first opera (""L'Epponina"") was released in"
"Gianni di Parigi Gianni di Parigi is an 1839 ""melodramma comico"" (""opera buffa"") in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, which had previously been set by Francesco Morlacchi in 1818 and by Giovanni Antonio Speranza in 1836. It is derived from ""Jean de Paris"", an 1812 opera by François-Adrien Boïeldieu with a libretto by Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just, which had been performed in Naples in 1816. According to Charles Osborne, the research of Swedish musicologist Anders Wiklund suggests that Donizetti may have begun composing the music for the opera between 1828 and"
"Giovanni Battista Doni Giovanni Battista Doni (c. 1593 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note ""Ut"" to ""Do"" (in the ""Do Re Mi ..."" solfège scale). In his day, he was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist, and from 1640 to 1647 he occupied the ""Chair of Eloquence"" at the University of Florence and was a prominent member of the city's Accademia della Crusca, one of the early semi-scientific/academic societies that flourished in Italy at the time."
"Donato Sacerdote Donato Sacerdote (, 1820–1883) was an Italian and Jewish poet. Sacerdote was born at Fossano in 1820. He died there on 27 November 1883. Passionately devoted to the classics, Sacerdote from his early youth applied himself to the comparative study of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and those of Vittorio Alfieri and Del Monti. Among Sacerdote's better-known dramas are ""Bianca Cappello,"" which was represented with great success at the Alfieri Theater, Turin, in 1874; ""Cola di Rienzo""; ""Catilina,"" a tragedy in five acts; and ""Eglon,"" a dramatic poem in five acts, relying heavily on Biblical inspiration."
"revealed in a playful quartet (""La moral di tutto questo"" – ""The moral of all this""). Notes Cited sources Don Pasquale Don Pasquale () is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera ""Ser Marcantonio"" written in 1810 but, on the published libretto, the author appears as ""M.A."" Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score."
"Francesca de Giorgi (Giannetta), Massimiliano Silvestri (Carlino), Graziano de Pace (Don Marco). Slovak Chamber Choir, Orchestra internazionale d'Italia, Massimiliano Caldi (conductor). Live recording from the 2008 Festival della Valle d'Itria. Label: Dynamic 634. Notes Sources Don Bucefalo Don Bucefalo is an opera (""dramma giocoso"") in three acts composed by Antonio Cagnoni to a libretto by Calisto Bassi. Bassi's libretto was based on ""Le cantatrici villane"" by Giuseppe Palomba (fl. 1765-1825), originally intended for Valentino Fioravanti and premiered in 1799. Don Bucefalo premiered on 28 June 1847 at the Milan Conservatory. After the success of Don Bucefalo at the Conservatory in"
"the role of Count Almaviva at the Prague premiere of Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro,"" after which contemporaries said, The people of Prague were so happy with this performance of the opera composed by the man they called ""Mozard"" that they asked Domenico Guardasoni, impresario of the Prague National Theatre, to organise another opera. Guardasoni wrote to Da Ponte and work began on ""Don Giovanni"". It was only natural that Bassi was called upon to sing again, and the role of Don Giovanni was written specially for him (with several joking references to the performance given the previous year). He"
"of 106. Her daughter, Fulvia, continued corresponding with Verdi for several years afterwards. In Louise Marley's 2010 novel ""Mozart's Blood"", Saporiti is the main protagonist, turned into a vampire (along with Mozart) during the preparations for ""Don Giovanni""'s premiere. Most of the novel, however, portrays her in the 21st century, and the sections portraying Saporiti's historical career are largely inconsistent with the record. Teresa Saporiti Teresa Saporiti (1763 – 17 March 1869) was an Italian operatic soprano and composer most remembered today for creating the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera ""Don Giovanni"". She was born in Milan and"
"Don Gregorio (opera) Don Gregorio is an 1826 opera by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti and adapted from his popular 1824 opera buffa L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (""The Tutor Embarrassed""), which had enjoyed considerable success when presented at the Teatro Valle in Rome on 4 February 1824. When Francesco Tortoli was interested in producing it in Naples, it was determined that ""L'ajo nell'imbarazzo"" was unsuitable as it stood. Donizetti then signed a contract with Tortoli for 300 ducats to adapt it into a new opera, ""Don Gregorio"", and to compose one further opera. For the adaptation, Donizetti composed some"
"Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur. Johan Reuter Johan Reuter (born 1969) is a Danish baritone and opera singer. Reuter was born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Royal Danish Opera Academy. He has been a member of the ensemble at the Royal Danish Opera since 1996. His principal appearances at the Royal Danish Opera are the Mozart roles Leporello and Don Giovanni in ""Don Giovanni"", Figaro in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Papageno in ""Die Zauberflöte"" and Guglielmo in ""Così fan tutte"", the Verdi roles Posa in ""Don Carlo"" and the title roles in"
"Francisco D'Andrade Francisco Augusto D'Andrade, or De Andrade, (11 January 1856 – 8 February 1921) was a Portuguese baritone who sang leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe, including five years as the principal baritone at the Royal Italian Opera in London and thirteen years at the Berlin Hofoper. Considered a ""very elegant and cultured singer,"" he was particularly admired for his portrayal of the title role in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". In his native city of Lisbon, D'Andrade created the role of Adaour in the 1888 world premiere of Alfredo Keil's ""Donna Bianca"", appearing with his elder brother, the tenor"
"(by proxy) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 (in person), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria (Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II. Mozart's opera ""Don Giovanni"" was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them. The premiere could not be arranged in time, however, so the opera ""The Marriage of Figaro"" was"
"""Don Juan"", in 1761. ""La finta giardiniera"", set by Pasquale Anfossi in 1774 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775, has been ascribed to him, but this is now regarded as doubtful. In 1775 Calzabigi was banished from the Viennese court as the result of a scandal and took up residence in Pisa, where he continued his literary activities until his death. Ranieri de' Calzabigi Ranieri de' Calzabigi (; 23 December 1714 – July 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his ""reform"" operas. Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent"
"Juan Francisco Gatell Juan Francisco Gatell (born November 28, 1978 in La Plata, Argentina Juan Francisco Gatell is an Argentinian operatic tenor who specialises in the bel canto repertoire. Juan Francisco Gatell won First Prize of the ASLICO competition in 2006. The same year he debuted the role of Don Ottavio of ""Don Giovanni"" (Mozart) in the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti), and he has also sung the role in the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, the Comunale in Bologna and La Scala in Milan. The tenor debuted in Paris at the Opera Garnier with ""Capriccio"" (Richard Strauss),"
"Opera Singer of the Year 2013 Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, Jury Mention Award, 1997 La bohème, as Colline, Robert Dornhelm as directorOpernfestspiele St. Margarethen Güneş Gürle Güneş Gürle (born July 7, 1975 in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish opera singer, bass-baritone. Made his operatic debut at the State Opera Istanbul in the 2002-03 season as Don Giovanni in Mozart's masterpiece. Which led his career to Mozart roles such as Giovanni, Leporello, Figaro, Bartolo, Don Alfonso and Osmin. He has performed under conductors such as Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Omar Meir Welber, Daniele Gatti, Paolo Carignani, Alexander Joel and Hans Wallat. He"
"it that he shall be responsible for the performance of this play and for the impression it may make"", after which the Austrian Censor duly forbade performing the German version of the play. Mozart's librettist managed to get official approval from the emperor for an operatic version which eventually achieved great success. The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte; their later collaborations were ""Don Giovanni"" and ""Così fan tutte"". It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it"