Don Giovanni

American  

[don joh-vah-nee, jee-uh-, dawn jaw-vahn-nee] / ˌdɒn dʒoʊˈvɑ ni, dʒi ə-, ˌdɔn dʒɔˈvɑn ni /

noun

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

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Don Giovanni Cultural  

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.

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Example Sentences

As Seattle Opera did with its streaming production of “Don Giovanni” this past spring, supertitles on jumbo screens will fill in the plot holes from these cuts.

From Seattle Times

She debuted as Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and immediately followed it with Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata.”

From New York Times

Like Don Giovanni, he never loses faith in his ability to manipulate them, even as they abandon him one by one.

From New York Times

As if to prove that there can be too much of this good thing, though, the conductor Teodor Currentzis and members of MusicAeterna — in town for the new production of “Don Giovanni” that will be part of the main festival — held a late-night concert of awe-inspiring choral music that was undermined by theatricality.

From New York Times

When pandemic restrictions tightened in the fall, the cavernous assembly area of the Opera Center — Seattle Opera’s headquarters — was converted into a movie sound stage for filming “Don Giovanni.”

From Seattle Times