As legend goes, Don Juan had 1003 lovers in Spain and is referred to as "Don Giovanni" in this opera. There are three women who have quite different backgrounds, a daughter of aristocracy, Donna Anna, a DG's former lover, Donna Elvira, and a village beauty, Zerlina. It is remarkable to see the interaction between Don Giovanni and the three women. The most dramatic scene is that Don Giovanni goes to hell. Mozart composed some very great dramatic music for this scene which is one of the greatest scenes in all of Mozart's operas.
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The character of Don Juan can be found in several literary,
musical, pictorial and cinematographic forms. This legendary
character first appeared in the 17th century, in a play by Tirso
de Molina titled L'abuseur de Séville et le Convive de pierre.
Don Juan is a great seducer, obsessed with the pleasures of life
and with no cares for others. He rejects social order and
Christian morality. He embodies the libertine.
In 1665,
Molière wrote his play Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone and Mozart
composed his opera Don Giovanni in 1787 with a libretto by
Lorenzo Da Ponte. Many writers and musicians have also treated
this myth: Charles Baudelaire in Les Fleurs du mal, Tchaikovsky
in Don Juan’s serenade. Christoph Willibald Glück composed a
ballet-pantomime in 1761 and Richard Strauss a symphonic poem in
1889.
