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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Don Giovanni

“My ambition,” he says in the documentary, “is not, like in Don Giovanni, collection—for Don Giovanni, women; for me, orchestras. It’s not like that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Each was an exposer extraordinaire: in Taruskin’s case, a composer like Stravinsky; in Brook’s case, an opera character like Don Giovanni.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt calls Haggerty an “important figure in underground music” and said there’s an “urgency” to tell stories like his.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

A few weeks later we were at the premiere for Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper in Berlin and Svante explained his current professional status to Daniel Barenboim and Cecilia Bartoli.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020

I particularly would like to see her as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick