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Issue Details: First known date: 1787... 1787 Don Giovanni
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Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer, it was given its premiered at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787 by the Prague Italian opera.

Adaptations

Little Don Giovanni ; Or, Leporello and the Stone Statue (International) assertion H. J. Byron , 1865 single work musical theatre burlesque

A burlesque by Byron on the Mozart opera, Don Giovanni (1787).
y separately published work icon The Rake Aaron J. Clarke , Australia : Aaron J. Clarke , 2021 21044049 2021 single work drama

'Taking inspiration from Mozart’s opera, 'Don Giovanni', Clarke recounts in his play, 'The Rake', the final day of Lord Grayson’s hedonistic life–another day of seducing women and general debauchery: breaking into a lady’s bedroom, murder, and enticing a bride on her wedding day. But despite his impressive reputation, Lord Grayson’s fortuity is petering out. Miss Anna has pledged retribution while the spurned Mrs Evelyn is in pursuit. Mason wants his bride back. And Lord Grayson hears a phantom voice, warning of his impending punishment. Flaunting his bravado, Lord Grayson ostentatiously invites the statue of the man whom he has murdered to dinner. Will he attend?'

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First known date: 1787
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Works about this Work

Mozart to da Ponte David Malouf , 2006 single work short story poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 (New Series) 2006; (p. 71-78) Typewriter Music 2007; (p. 48-58)
Don Giovanni i "Emerging from the mist of Latin Europe", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Whirling 1998; (p. 41)
Dalla Sua Pace i "Fischblut loves singing regardless of the song,", A. D. Hope , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 20 no. 4 1961; (p. 395) Collected Poems 1930-1965 1972; (p. 173-174) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 106) Australian Poetry Library 2004-;
Mozart to da Ponte David Malouf , 2006 single work short story poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 (New Series) 2006; (p. 71-78) Typewriter Music 2007; (p. 48-58)
Don Giovanni i "Emerging from the mist of Latin Europe", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Whirling 1998; (p. 41)
Dalla Sua Pace i "Fischblut loves singing regardless of the song,", A. D. Hope , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 20 no. 4 1961; (p. 395) Collected Poems 1930-1965 1972; (p. 173-174) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 106) Australian Poetry Library 2004-;
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