ABSTRACT
Il Dissoluto punito o sia il Don Giovanni dates from 1787 and was the second of the three operas which Mozart created in collaboration with Lorenzo da Ponte as librettist. Don Giovanni, in disguise, has made an attempt on Donna Anna’s virtue. She pursues him from the house, determined to identify the intruder. Don Giovanni passes himself off as Leporello in order to woo Elvira’s maid and, later, to outwit Masetto; Leporello, wearing his master’s cloak, is left to deal with Elvira and evade or placate his master’s pursuers as best he may. Don Giovanni has the advantage of beautiful and seductive music to give him a degree of appeal to anyone who is not a tone-deaf and uncompromising moralist.
