Don Giovanni

[ don joh-vah-nee, jee-uh-; Italian dawn jaw-vahn-nee ]

noun

1. an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Don Giovanni

1. An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , recounting the dissolute life of Don Juan ( Don Giovanni is the Italian form of Don Juan ). At the end of the opera, a statue of a man Don Giovanni has killed comes to life and drags the unscrupulous seducer into the burning pit of hell .

Example Sentences

In the penultimate scene, the ghost of the Commendatore appears to Don Giovanni.

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Thanks to her, he learnt to know the whole of Don Giovanni, and was never tired of reading the pianoforte score.

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Now toast the Don Giovanni's crew, who bear the prize away, And may they always sail as well as they have sail'd to-day!

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He did a pencil portrait of me, sitting at the piano with Mozart's "Don Giovanni" open before me.

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But his prime favourite was Mozart's "Don Giovanni," over which we often sat till two in the morning.

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Don Giovanni observes the two glasses of wine and smells them suspiciously.

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