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

This included bringing back Teodor Currentzis to lead a revival of an avant-garde production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”

From Los Angeles Times

All of that shows up in the “Don Giovanni,” which came close to perfection and extreme reinvention.

From Los Angeles Times

The real opera sets Pushkin’s play, which was written as a response to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” word for word.

From Los Angeles Times

Barskaya told the audience that she can’t remember whether, growing up in Kyiv, she heard “The Stone Guest” or Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” first, so seminal is the work to the development of Russian opera.

From Los Angeles Times

Kellogg, who lives in the Bay Area, has been intertwined with Seattle Opera’s artistic and mainstage programming since he appeared as the Commendatore in the Opera’s filmed version of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in 2021 and then with “Blue,” Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori’s opera about a father who loses his son to police violence, in 2022.

From Seattle Times