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* BassoProfundo: The intimidating Commendatore, which makes his entrance at the end of the play all the more terrifying.
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''Don Giovanni, or the Rake Punish'd'' is one of the most famous versions of the Don Juan legend and the second joint venture of the composer-librettist team of Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. As a ''dramma giocoso'' (a GenreBusting [[{{Dramedy}} mix of comedy and drama]]), the {{opera}} tells the story everyone has heard of and no one actually can narrate beyond saying that the protagonist is TheCasanova, while the Don Juan legend is in fact much older.
In short, the plot covers a single day where [[FinaglesLaw everything that can go wrong does go wrong]] for the [[VillainProtagonist hero]] and can most easily be presented through its characters:
* [[TheCasanova Don Giovanni]] -- A young nobleman whose philosophy is that being constant to one woman means being cruel to all the others -- and since he loves them all, how could he do that? Silly women, interpreting his good nature as infidelity.
* [[PluckyComicRelief Leporello]] -- Don Giovanni's cowardly and bullied servant. He's always trying to leave his master, but is a bit on the greedy side. Tries to emulate Giovanni with little success at times. Is the author of a lengthy list of all his master's conquests (640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1,003 in Spain)
* [[BrokenBird Donna Anna]] -- Daughter of the neighboring Commander who [[AttemptedRape almost gets raped]] or seduced by Don Giovanni (depending on one's interpretation of the events) when he sneaks into her bedroom in the guise of her fiance. When the masked man kills her father, she makes her actual fiance swear revenge.
* [[TenorBoy Don Ottavio]] -- The obligatory noble fiance of Anna to balance out the Don. Possibly the opera's OnlySaneMan - he's the only one who comes up with any practical ideas for taking out his father-in-law's murderer. Seems to consider Anna a pure thing; he doesn't doubt her for a second and does practically everything she wants. Always asking Anna to marry him, but she always brings up her period of mourning.
* [[LoveMartyr Donna Elvira]] -- A lady from Burgos, one of the 1,003 on the list. She came to hunt down the Don and kill him or get him back; she can never decide which. Always falls for every speech of love the Don gives her, except when there's obviously another woman in his sights. She's the only person who believes that he can still be redeemed, though she's very aware of his nature.
* [[TheIngenue Zerlina]] -- A peasant girl to be married to Masetto. She gets annoyed with her beau being so jealous. She falls for Giovanni at first, but eventually sobers up when she realizes that she was right and he does indeed only want to have fun with her.
** Interestingly, in the [[DirectorsCut Viennese version]] of the piece, Zerlina exhibits a sadistic streak as well, when she ties Leporello to a chair and slaps him around in Act 2.
* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Masetto]] -- Zerlina's extremely jealous fiance. He gets suckered by Giovanni all the time, and has only one aria in the opera, which makes him the odd one out among the ensemble cast -- except for the Commander, but he gets the big scene in the end.
* [[TalkingToTheDead The Commander]] (''Don Pedro'' in most versions of the story, unnamed in the opera) -- Anna's father, who comes out to defend her honor. Giovanni doesn't want to fight at first, then skewers him easily. He gets a nifty statue built within the span of a day, but is apparently not-yet-fully-dead, as he accepts the joking invitation to dinner by the Don (made to scare Leporello, who was afraid of the statue) and promptly [[spoiler:drags him off to hell after he refuses to repent]].
A good way to tell when the plot is going to get dramatic is to watch for whenever Ottavio, Anna or the Commander appear; the other supporting characters are mostly comical. The plot itself is full of twists, so go to [[Recap/DonGiovanni our synopsis]] to read it.
In short, the plot covers a single day where [[FinaglesLaw everything that can go wrong does go wrong]] for the [[VillainProtagonist hero]] and can most easily be presented through its characters:
* [[TheCasanova Don Giovanni]] -- A young nobleman whose philosophy is that being constant to one woman means being cruel to all the others -- and since he loves them all, how could he do that? Silly women, interpreting his good nature as infidelity.
* [[PluckyComicRelief Leporello]] -- Don Giovanni's cowardly and bullied servant. He's always trying to leave his master, but is a bit on the greedy side. Tries to emulate Giovanni with little success at times. Is the author of a lengthy list of all his master's conquests (640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1,003 in Spain)
* [[BrokenBird Donna Anna]] -- Daughter of the neighboring Commander who [[AttemptedRape almost gets raped]] or seduced by Don Giovanni (depending on one's interpretation of the events) when he sneaks into her bedroom in the guise of her fiance. When the masked man kills her father, she makes her actual fiance swear revenge.
* [[TenorBoy Don Ottavio]] -- The obligatory noble fiance of Anna to balance out the Don. Possibly the opera's OnlySaneMan - he's the only one who comes up with any practical ideas for taking out his father-in-law's murderer. Seems to consider Anna a pure thing; he doesn't doubt her for a second and does practically everything she wants. Always asking Anna to marry him, but she always brings up her period of mourning.
* [[LoveMartyr Donna Elvira]] -- A lady from Burgos, one of the 1,003 on the list. She came to hunt down the Don and kill him or get him back; she can never decide which. Always falls for every speech of love the Don gives her, except when there's obviously another woman in his sights. She's the only person who believes that he can still be redeemed, though she's very aware of his nature.
* [[TheIngenue Zerlina]] -- A peasant girl to be married to Masetto. She gets annoyed with her beau being so jealous. She falls for Giovanni at first, but eventually sobers up when she realizes that she was right and he does indeed only want to have fun with her.
** Interestingly, in the [[DirectorsCut Viennese version]] of the piece, Zerlina exhibits a sadistic streak as well, when she ties Leporello to a chair and slaps him around in Act 2.
* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Masetto]] -- Zerlina's extremely jealous fiance. He gets suckered by Giovanni all the time, and has only one aria in the opera, which makes him the odd one out among the ensemble cast -- except for the Commander, but he gets the big scene in the end.
* [[TalkingToTheDead The Commander]] (''Don Pedro'' in most versions of the story, unnamed in the opera) -- Anna's father, who comes out to defend her honor. Giovanni doesn't want to fight at first, then skewers him easily. He gets a nifty statue built within the span of a day, but is apparently not-yet-fully-dead, as he accepts the joking invitation to dinner by the Don (made to scare Leporello, who was afraid of the statue) and promptly [[spoiler:drags him off to hell after he refuses to repent]].
A good way to tell when the plot is going to get dramatic is to watch for whenever Ottavio, Anna or the Commander appear; the other supporting characters are mostly comical. The plot itself is full of twists, so go to [[Recap/DonGiovanni our synopsis]] to read it.
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''Don Giovanni, or the Rake Punish'd'' is one of the most famous versions of the Don Juan legend and the second joint venture of the composer-librettist team of Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. As a ''dramma giocoso'' (a GenreBusting [[{{Dramedy}} mix of comedy and drama]]), the {{opera}} tells the story everyone has heard of and no one actually can narrate beyond saying that the protagonist titular [[TheCasanova Don Giovanni]], a nobleman whose singular goal in life is TheCasanova, while seducing as many women as possible.
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* [[TenorBoy Don Ottavio]] -- The obligatory noble fiance of Anna to balance out the Don. Possibly the opera's OnlySaneMan - he's the only one who comes up with any practical ideas for taking out his father-in-law's murderer. Seems to consider Anna a pure thing; he doesn't doubt her for a second and does practically everything she wants. Always asking Anna to marry him, but she always brings up her period of mourning.
* [[LoveMartyr Donna Elvira]] -- A lady from Burgos, one of the 1,003 on the list. She came to hunt down the Don and kill him or get him back; she can never decide which. Always falls for every speech of love the Don gives her, except when there's obviously another woman in his sights. She's the only person who believes that he can still be redeemed, though she's very aware of his nature.
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** Interestingly, in the [[DirectorsCut Viennese version]] of the piece, Zerlina exhibits a sadistic streak as well, when she ties Leporello to a chair and slaps him around in Act 2.
*away from her jealous groom [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Masetto]] -- Zerlina's extremely jealous fiance. He gets suckered by and their wedding party. However, Elvira intervenes, taking Zerlina away just as Anna and Ottavio come seeking help in their plight from their good friend Giovanni. Once Elvira returns to expose him again, Giovanni all quickly attempts to convince Anna and Ottavio that she's crazy and not to be trusted. However, after he departs, Anna recognises Giovanni's voice as the time, same as her attacker. Recounting the full story to Ottavio, she [[RuleOfThree reiterates the need to take revenge.]] Despite doubts that a nobleman could act so dishonorably, Ottavio wants to do whatever it takes to help Anna.
Zerlina manages to convince Masetto that she's been faithful to him at the lavish party Giovanni throws for them. Three masked strangers appear outside - Anna, Elvira, andhas only one aria Ottavio in disguise - and are invited to join the opera, which makes festivities. They come in just in time to hear Zerlina scream for help. Giovanni tries to blame Leporello for assaulting her, but Ottavio calls him out and pulls out a gun. All the odd one characters unite against Giovanni, swearing revenge.
That's Act I. Act II details [[Recap/DonGiovanni many shenanigans]] of how Giovanni keeps getting outamong the ensemble cast -- except for the Commander, but of attempts to bring him to justice... until he gets the big scene in the end.
* [[TalkingToTheDead The Commander]] (''Don Pedro'' in most versionsarrogantly invites a statue of the story, unnamed in the opera) -- Anna's father, who comes out to defend her honor. Giovanni doesn't want to fight at first, then skewers him easily. He gets a nifty statue built within the span of a day, but is apparently not-yet-fully-dead, as he accepts the joking invitation Commander, to dinner by with him... and [[OhCrap the Don (made to scare Leporello, who was afraid of statue accepts.]] When the statue) statue arrives, it offers him one final chance at redemption, which Giovanni rejects, and is promptly [[spoiler:drags him off dragged to hell after he refuses to repent]].
Hell for his sins as a result in one of the most epic finales in all of opera.
A good way to tell when the plot is going to get dramatic is to watch for whenever Ottavio, Anna or the Commander appear; the other supporting characters are mostly comical. The plot itself is full of twists, so go to [[Recap/DonGiovanni our synopsis]] to read it.
The story begins in Seville at night, with Don Giovanni attempting to seduce [[BrokenBird Donna Anna]], the
In short, the plot covers a single day where [[FinaglesLaw everything that can go wrong does go wrong]] for the
* [[TheCasanova Don Giovanni]] -- A young nobleman whose philosophy is that being constant to one woman means being cruel to all
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* [[LoveMartyr Donna Elvira]] -- A lady from Burgos, one of the 1,003 on the list. She came to hunt down the Don and kill him or get him back; she can never decide which. Always falls for every speech of love the Don gives her, except when there's obviously another woman in his sights. She's the only person who believes that he can still be redeemed, though she's very aware of his nature.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: ServileSnarker Leporello serves Don Giovanni his dinner, and when he thinks the Don isn't looking, Leporello steals a piece of pheasant to eat himself. Unfortunately, the Don does notice, but he pretends not to and toys with Leporello--ordering him to speak more clearly and then to whistle for him, which he can't do with his mouth full--until he finally confesses.
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* GenreBusting: ''Don Giovanni'' is an odd duck in many ways. It isn't quite a comedy, given its rather brutal ending, and the lack of a definitive HappilyEverAfter, though it contains plenty of comedy, ranging from "innocent" to "dead baby". It isn't quite a tragedy, given that Don Giovanni is never sympathetic enough to be a TragicHero and is completely fallen from the start, as well as that Don Giovanni is ultimately not brought down by his main character flaw of womanising, but rather his secondary flaw of arrogance, though there are plenty of tragic moments. There is a ghost in it, but the ghost is more of a DeusExMachina and doesn't appear until the final scene, so it's difficult to characterise as a ghost story. There are two revenge plots happening in the background, but neither one goes anywhere. There is plenty of stuff in there about love and relationships, but precious little that could be considered romance, and so on ....
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* {{Retraux}}: Elvira's aria "Ah fuggi il traditor" is written in the style of Baroque opera composers such as Music/GeorgeFridericHandel, with even the text written in a deliberately old-fashioned verse form.
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* {{Retraux}}: Elvira's aria "Ah fuggi il traditor" is written in the style of Baroque opera composers such as Music/GeorgeFridericHandel, Music/GeorgeFredericHandel, with even the text written in a deliberately old-fashioned verse form.
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* CombatPragmatist: Don Ottavio knows he can't possibly outmatch Don Giovanni with a sword, so he brings a gun. Don Giovanni realizes that his fencing skills are [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight useless]] and simply runs for it.
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* CombatPragmatist: Don Ottavio knows he can't possibly outmatch Don Giovanni with a sword, so he brings a gun. Don Giovanni realizes that his fencing skills are [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight useless]] and simply runs for it.
