一个拈花惹草的登徒子——莫扎特的《唐乔瓦尼》

A philandering lecher: Mozart’s Don Giovanni

唐璜的故事源于中世纪的西班牙传说。其原型是出自西班牙著名的古城塞维利亚显赫的贵族家庭——特诺里奥家族的浪荡公子堂·胡安,他不但勾引了城中修道院骑士团长的女儿,且在事件败露之后残忍地杀死了骑士团长。由于堂·胡安家族势力很大,修道院的修士奈何他不得,便设计将堂·胡安引诱到圣弗朗西斯科修道院墓地。

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in Prague’s National Theater on October 29, 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. Mozar t entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, Don Giovanni blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.