... years old Mozart conducted the premiere himself. Lorenzo da Ponte had written the libretto for him and had taken the plot from an opera performed in Venice in January 1787. The central figure is the fascinating but unscrupulous seducer from Sevilla. The people around him become his victims: Donna Anna, the Commendatore ... with a threefold NO. His servant Leporello plays the part of the harlequin taken from the old popular comedy. Act 1 of the play begins in the 1600's in Seville. At night, outside the Commendatore's palace, Leporello grumbles about his duties as servant to Don Giovanni...

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