Don Giovanni

[ihatepop]

Oh man, this is my absolute FAV opera. The storyline is brilliant. Mozart was a genius with operas...

ihatepop

[bench warmer]

Mine is:



Rossini -----------  Barber of Seville

  great melodies, great humor

[moi_not_toi]

Oh man, this is my absolute FAV opera. The storyline is brilliant. Mozart was a genius with operas...

ihatepop

Yeah, the plot was great BECAUSE HE DIDNT WRITE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but I have to admit, his operas are GREAT. I LOVE die zauberflote, my fav, as far as classical opera goes. Abduction from the Seraglio is pretty good too.

[richard weaver]

Don Giovanni is a Great opera- I agree. If you like Don Giovanni you should listen to the Blackadder variations and Fugue- in the Fugue- the Blackadder theme is used as a counterpoint to Mozarts Don Giovanni theme in the very end of the piece. You can listen to it on iTunes. The composer is called Christopher Swede.
 

[mcgillcomposer]

Yep, all great works...

...check out Bizet's Carmen...exquisite music...the detail of the orchestration is astonishing.

[burstroman]

Mozart is my favorite opera composer.  So many hits!

[daniloperusina]

Yeah, the plot was great BECAUSE HE DIDNT WRITE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not as simple as that. Da Ponte wrote the libretto, of course, and the story had circulated way before their time, but Mozart was at that time in his career extremely picky about texts, so he suggested, criticised, changed, approved, scrapped every word Da Ponte gave to him. So credit to Da Ponte for not only being a great librettist, but also for having the patience and humbleness necessary to work with the demon!

[cmg]

So credit to Da Ponte for not only being a great librettist, but also for having the patience and humbleness necessary to work with the demon!

Mozart wasn't "a demon."  He was a classic case of arrested emotional development.  He never had the opportunity to experience life as others did -- gradually, inevitably.  He was a trained monkey thrown on the stage by his father.  When he matured artistically, the immature world hardly understood his achievements.  His unworldliness and emotional retardation clashed with this and it was his undoing:  the result of his precocious childhood and exploitation by his father.  That he left us anything of worth is the real miracle.

Don't deify him.  Don't demonize him.  Just understand him.

[prismsplay]

In a 1906 piano instruction book is this brief transcription from "Don Giovanni":

https://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/odw094.mid

Just enough to interest me in listening to the entire opera, should an opportunity present itself.

[moi_not_toi]

In a 1906 piano instruction book is this brief transcription from "Don Giovanni":

https://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/odw094.mid

Just enough to interest me in listening to the entire opera, should an opportunity present itself.

ooooh! That sounds kool! What part is it?

[soliloquy]

I can't really enjoy Don Giovanni after hearing Don Juan SOOOOO many times


My fav is probably either Tosca or Otello.

[pipes]

This clip sounds like the beginning of the duet between Don G. and Zerlina-- La ci darem la mano.