Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Don Giovanni"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto By Lorenzo Da Ponte Opera in two acts The Director's version by Yuri Alexandrov The duration of the performance taking into account the intermission: 3 hours 20 minutes Timeline: the seventeenth century. Place: Seville and its surroundings. First performance: Prague, national theatre, 29 October 1787. The plot is an ancient legend of don Juan, a daring adventurer, a brave and skillful seducer of women. Emerged in medieval Spain, this legend became widely known in many European countries. The story was first treated by the Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina (1571 – 1648), later attracted many writers, including molière and Goldoni. In the nineteenth century to the image of don Giovanni's appeal Byron, Hoffmann, Pushkin, Merimee, and others. Repeatedly used this theme, and musicians in 1761 in Vienna there was the ballet of Gluck's "don Giovanni"; also known a number of operas on the same theme. In these works the legend of don Juan has received a different treatment. Some of them have religious-instructive painting, don Juan is described as a criminal gross sensualist, receiving well-deserved retribution. But often it has been made to other attractive traits – fearlessness, a sense of honor, wit, the eternal pursuit of the ideal, daring rebellion against the decrepit morality.