Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [dɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.

Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte
Date of composition 1787
Premiered 1787, October 29th in Prague, Czech Republic
Type Opera
Catalogue KV 527
Approx. duration 150 minutes
Spoken language Italian
Instruments Orchestra
Voice (Soprano) - Donna Anna
Voice (Tenor) - Don Ottavio
Voice (Soprano) - Donna Elvira
Voice (Soprano) - Zerlina
Voice (Bass) - Leporello
Voice (Bass) - Il Commendatore (Don Pedro)
Voice (Bass) - Masetto
Voice (Baritone) - Don Giovanni
Chorus/Choir - peasants, servants, young ladies, musicians, demons
Arrangements Hector Berlioz: Là ci darem la mano, H 30
Richard Wagner: Arrangement of Mozart's Don Giovanni, WWV 83
Franz Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan (Grande fantaisie), S. 418
In listings Famous Works
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Autotranslations beta Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, KV 527
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, KV 527
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, KV 527