Wolfgang amadeus mozart don giovanni series#
Significant literary adaptations were signed by Pushkin, Merime, Grabe, Bernard Shaw and others, while Max Frisch wrote Don Juan or Love of Geometry. Don was first sung “in Italian in Brno in 1734, and than he was a hero in Gluck’s ballet of the same title”, and after that a whole series of successful composers compose operas on this topic. Viennese Theatre in Leopoldstadt had a comical adaptation of this theme on stage from 1783 till 1821. During the whole of the 18th century various plays about legendary seducer were shown in Austria and Germany. Carlo Goldoni’s arrangement was less successful and it had a short life on stage. In 1665, Moliere deepened this subject matter psychologically and named it Don Juan or The Stone Banquet it deviates from Italian road shows’ improvisations. He wasn’t wrong as the success was bigger after each performance, and newspapers wrote “that it has never been like that”. The first to play the character of Don Juan, bold seducer of ladies, on the stage, was Spanish monk Gabriel Teles, known as Tirso de Molina in the play The Libertine of Seville. Mozart trusts his singers and his audience, and knows that his new work, bold and unusual, must charm connoisseurs. Citizens of Prague, lovers of Italian opera, themselves very musical, can listen to Mozart’s melodies at balls, in inns, from organ grinders, and that is why they give Mozart three rounds of applause when he enters the orchestra. A renowned composer of The Marriage of Figaro and his librettist abbot Lorenzo da Ponte have chosen well-known and well-loved story of a fearless, impudent seducer, legendary Spanish nobleman Don Juan. In the theatre rented to a respectable Italian opera company, in Prague, finally, after two delays, a new opera by a Viennese composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is being performed.
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