Talk:Don Giovanni

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[edit] Place

While it is tempting to assume that Don Giovanni is set in Seville, the score says no such thing: see here. We have to assume that description (La scena si finge in una città della Spagna) has been chosen deliberately, so please stop inserting Seville as the place of the plot. Michael Bednarek 02:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

I'm a music student studying this piece. Anyone who is knowledgeable in this area maybe you could add a section focussing on Mozart's music and the musical elements employed in this opera.

Too derivative? When one looks up Don Giovanni, he should be given all information about the subject.

A concluding chorus of the entire cast of the opera is generally omitted.

Does this mean including Don Giovanni, or is it the usual ending where the remaining characters get together to sing about what a bad guy he really was? I'm not aware of any other ending.

I think this is usually played these days.

Also, is this article too derivative? Violating Wikipedia principles? -- David Martland 04:13 17 May 2003 (UTC)

Please revert this article to previous version. Some characters in this article are destroyed by editing environment of mine.
Sorry.
I hope editors use ' instead of ’...
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Lupinoid 11:18 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Every performance of Don G I have seen has included the final chorus. -- Viajero 18:26 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)


This has been moved to Don Giovanni (Mozart): pardon me for asking, but are there any other Don Giovannis, and if so, who by? The Anome 19:40 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I don't know of any, but maybe there's something I don't know - User:Matdaddy moved it - he seems pretty knowledgable, so you might ask him. --Camembert
Nope, just Mozart's. --Viajero 08:15 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Moved it back to original name. -- Viajero 16:18, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, there was at least one earlier one by a composer named Giuseppe Gazzaniga. (I don't know if he was any relation to the famous neurologist.) 38.117.238.82 05:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of characters

A list of characters per Shakespeare playscripts would be useful. --Plastictv 05:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Good idea - I've had a go at this, but someone might like to tidy it up a bit!

[edit] Or Sai Chi L'Onore

The translation should be "Now you know who TRIED to rob me of my honor." In the previous recitative, "Don Ottavio, Son Morta" ("Don Ottavio, I am Dead"), Donna Anna explicitly tells Don Ottavio that Don Giovanni had failed to seduce her. People have of course been arguing ever since about whether or not she was lying. (As we are dealing with fictional characters here, a definitive answer is of course impossible.) 38.117.238.82 06:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC) (Sorry I forgot to sign before.)

[edit] Link to libretto

The link to the libretto is dead. I've spent at least 15 minutes on Google trying to find another, to no avail. If Google can't help me, who can?

RedRabbit1983 14:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I've replaced it with a link to the libretto at the Karadar site, which I located by using this site: [1]. --GuillaumeTell 16:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Fin ch'han dal vino"

No, it's not "Fin ch'han del vino", it's "Fin ch'han dal vino". Here's the relevant part of the libretto - it's near the end of Scena 15. --GuillaumeTell (talk) 14:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Ooops! I am sorry, you are right. This teaches me to check rather than trusting my memory. Happy editing, Goochelaar (talk) 14:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Could Anybody who knows alot about Don Giovanni the Opera please add some more topics on things like a write up of the play and basically what it is like as I really need more facts on it. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.97.14 (talk) 15:17, 27 January 2008 (UTC)