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

“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

Admittedly, Don Giovanni probably can’t be otherwise, given the gravity of the issues it addresses.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2021

Either way, as the statue said to Don Giovanni: Ah! tempo più non v’è.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2020

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 finally fall asleep and dream of the Greek Titans in my school lesson, battling to a backdrop of thundering bass in "Da qual tremore insolito" from Don Giovanni.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper