"Who composed the opera ""Don Giovanni""?"
Don Giovanni Don Giovanni refuses to repent, has been a captivating philosophical and artistic topic for many writers including George Bernard Shaw, who in "Man and Superman" parodied the opera (with explicit mention of the Mozart score for the finale scene between the Commendatore and Don Giovanni). Gustave Flaubert called "Don Giovanni", along with "Hamlet" and the sea, "the three finest things God ever made." E. T. A. Hoffmann also wrote a short story derived from the opera, "Don Juan," in which the narrator meets Donna Anna and describes Don Juan as an aesthetic hero rebelling against God and society. In some
Don Giovanni in Prague; the genre of eighteenth-century Don Juan opera originated in Prague. The libretto of Lorenzo Da Ponte was based closely on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati for the opera "Don Giovanni Tenorio", first performed in Venice early in 1787, although he was loath to admit this in memoirs written decades later. Some of the most important elements that he copied were the idea of opening the drama with the murder of the Commendatore (in earlier dramas, this incident always appeared somewhere in the middle) and the lack of a specification of Seville as the setting, which had been customary