I was first introduced to this opera and Mozarts music when I watched Amadeus for the first time way back in my 6th grade music class in 1993 or 1994.. I really started to get into classical music after that. Don Giovanni is my favorite Mozart opera.
The tune that begins at 3:40, "Non piu andrai" is from Mozart's previous opera "The Marriage of Figaro." The audience would have recognized it immediately and probably applauded. I believe the same is true of some of the other tunes that DG identifies earlier in the scene.
When I discovered this version, I couldn't help but think, the most frugal production does achieve the most impressive results!!! I'm flabbergasted every time I listen to this final scene how Kurt Moll and other established Commendatore voices now may rest at ease, there's a wonderful new generation of opera singers and boy do they deliver!!
fantastic young singers but this cannot be a frugal production, this set is mid tier opera company level haha! for a university this looks high budget! i've seen cheaper looking sets at summer festivals in Europe
DON GIOVANNI Ah, I see the table's ready, Play a gay and festive measure. Costly is my cup of'pleasure; And I'll drain it to the end. Leporello, serve the supper. LEPORELLO All is ready to command. [Musicians begin to play on the stage, Don Giovanni eating] Bravi! «Cosa rara!» DON GIOVANNI Is this music to thy liking? LEPORELLO I must own I have heard some things more striking. DON GIOVANNI Here's a dish to be commended! LEPORELLO [aside] Would this meal were safely ended! While I watch his giant mouthfuls, I his courage comprehend. DON GIOVANNI [aside] While he watches ev'ry mouthful, Who on me is to attend? Wine here! LEPORELLO Ready! Long life to «I litiganti»! DON GIOVANNI Fill my goblet! Leporello pours wine. Choice aroma, goodly vintage! [Leporello changes Don Giovanni's plate.] LEPORELLO [aside] I'll devour this piece of pheasant, Softly, softly, while I downwards bend. DON GIOVANNI None to serve me, this is pleasant, Rascal, say, wilt thou attend? LEPORELLO That's a song I have heard but too often. DON GIOVANNI [without looking at him] Leporello! LEPORELLO [with his mouth full] Yes, sir, coming! DON GIOVANNI Well, speak out, man, what art thou mumbling? LEPORELLO I beseech you, stay from grumbling, I've a cold that will not mend. DON GIOVANNI I expect thee to amuse me. LEPORELLO Sir, I can't. DON GIOVANNI Why not? LEPORELLO Excuse me! When such viands dainty invite me, Wonder not if I partake, wonder not if l partake. DON GIOVANNI It is clear thou must partake, it is clear thou must partake. DONNA ELVIRA [rushing in distractedly] Love bids me venture, One more endeavour, Ere we forever Asunder fly. Though you may scorn me, I'll not resent, I come to warn thee! DON GIOVANNI and LEPORELLO [rising] Pray, why? DONNA ELVIRA [kneeling] With love I've ended Joy long hath left me, Lone and unfriended I long to die. DON GIOVANNI You quite surprise me. Your wish reveal then! If you must kneel then, Why, so must I - [kneels] DONNA ELVIRA Cruel deride me not, For thee I'm sueing! LEPORELLO Her wrongs are all forgot, For him she's sueing! DON GIOVANNI Come, sweet one, chide me not! He gets up and raises her. Nay, sweet one, chide me not with affected tenderness Why wilt thou cry? DONNA ELVIRA Thy life amend thou! DON GIOVANNI Bravo! DONNA ELVIRA Misguided one! DON GIOVANNI This fooling end now seats himself again at the table, and begins to eat When thou hast supped well, No more thou'lt sigh! DONNA ELVIRA Wretch, I abandon thee, More and more hateful, Ever detested be, Thee I disown! [Exit.] LEPORELLO If he relents not To see her grieving, His heart deceiving's hard as stone! DON GIOVANNI Maidens both fair and young, Good wine, and plenty, To these are praises due, To these alone! [Donna Elvira returns and rushes out at the opposite side.] DONNA ELVIRA Ah! DON GIOVANNI and LEPORELLO A scream, what can have happen'd? DON GIOVANNI Go and see, go and see, what is the matter. LEPORELLO [goes, and when off the stage cries out] Ah! DON GIOVANNI What ever means this clatter? Leporello art thou mad? LEPORELLO Oh, good Sir! For heav'n sake, Not a step do that way take, [Leporello returns dismayed, and shuts the door] White and stony, he's behind me, Oh good master, I'm fainting, don't mind me, If you saw his marble features, If you heard him nearer draw, Ta, ta, ta, ta. DON GIOVANNI I believe thou art demented. One could scare thee with a straw! [Knocking heard at the door.] LEPORELLO Hark! He's coming! DON GIOVANNI Some one's knocking Open. LEPORELLO [trembling] I dare not! DON GIOVANNI Go this instant! LEPORELLO Ah! DON GIOVANNI Coward, if I would be enlightened, I must go myself and see, I'll go and see. [takes a light and goes to open the door] LEPORELLO Oh, to death I sure am frightened, Here I'll hide where none can see. [Leporello hides under the table.] THE COMMANDANT Don Giovanni! Be thee invited, Here behold me, as thou'st directed. DON GIOVANNI Truly I did not expect it, But anew I'll sup with thee, Leporello, serve the table, For my guest another cover! LEPORELLO [puts his head out from under the table] Sir, be still, say no more! DON GIOVANNI Go, directly! [Leporello rises as if to obey.] THE COMMANDANT No need of that, Earthly food he no longer desireth, Who of heavenly food hath partaken, Cast away from thee now all such trifling, Heed the sentence I hither have brought. LEPORELLO Sure a fit of the ague hath seiz'd me, Of all motion bereft, I'm distraught! DON GIOVANNI Well, what would'st thou? Well, I listen. THE COMMANDANT Silence, and mark me, this hour thou hast sought. DON GIOVANNI Speak then, tell me, of fear know I nought. THE COMMANDANT Thou didst thyself invite me, For that I must requite thee, Then answer me, then answer me, As my guest, when shall I claim thee? LEPORELLO [standing far off, trembling] Say no, say no; He is engag'd, excuse him. DON GIOVANNI Of fear none shall accuse me, To none will I succumb! THE COMMANDANT Determine! DON GIOVANNI I have determined... THE COMMANDANT Thou'lt come, then? LEPORELLO Say that you can't, that you can't. DON GIOVANNI My heart is firm within me, I have no fear, I'll come. THE COMMANDANT Give me thy hand in token! DON GIOVANNI Take it then. Ah, me! THE COMMANDANT What is't? DON GIOVANNI What deadly chill is this! THE COMMANDANT Turn thee, ere heav'n hath doom'd thee, There's time yet for repentance. DON GIOVANNI [vainly tries to free himself] For me there's no repentance, Vanish thou from my sight! THE COMMANDANT Dread then, the wrath eternal. DON GIOVANNI Away, thou spectre infernal! THE COMMANDANT Yes, repent! DON GIOVANNI No! THE COMMANDANT Yes, repent! DON GIOVANNI No! THE COMMANDANT Yes! DON GIOVANNI No! THE COMMANDANT Yes! Now must my soul take flight! [Exit.] [Flames appear in all directions, the earth trembles.] DON GIOVANNI Terrors unknown are freezing me, Demons of doom are seizing me, Is hell let loose to torture me? Or does it mock my sight? CHORUS [from below, with hollow voices] Torments eternal wait thee! Burning in endless night! DON GIOVANNI My soul is rent in agony! Condemn'd to endless misery, Oh, doom of wrath and terror, No more to see the light! LEPORELLO The fire of doom surrounds him, Its fiery glare confounds him, What sounds, what sights of terror, Oh, I shall die, oh, I shall die of fright! [The flames increase and engulph Don Giovanni.] DONNA ELVIRA, DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA and DON OCTAVIO Where is the miscreant? Where is the traitor? MASETTO By fate o'ertaken. Now fallen low, now fallen low! DONNA ANNA Seize him, Imprison him, Who ne'er relented, No mercy shew. LEPORELLO Not here you'll find him, For ever vanish'd, Flames went behind him, He's gone below. ALL OTHERS Say, what befell him? Quick, tell us all you know. LEPORELLO That man gigantic, he's driv'n me frantic. Nothing I'll garble, that man of marble, Grim and tremendous, oh, heav'n defend us. Came here and warn'd him. He madly scorn'd him, 'Mid flamings sulphurous he went below in fire and thunder. THE OTHERS Truly, a wonder! LEPORELLO Truly, a wonder! DONNA ANNA, DONNA ELVIRA, ZERLINA, DON OCTAVIO and MASETTO I saw the spectre with mien of woe. DON OCTAVIO Heav'n itself then our cause has righted. Days of peace now dawn before us, Grant, oh, grant then the vows plighted, Now at last may be fulfill'd. DONNA ANNA I but ask thee, oh, my belov'd one, To delay but one short year ... Lover's pleadings are commandments, On thy faithful love I build. DONNA ELVIRA To a convent I betake me, There to end my troubled life. ZERLINA AND MASETTO Now dear, wait no longer till we two are man and wife. LEPORELLO And I'll seek another master, And begin another life. ZERLINA, MASETTO AND LEPORELLO And let him in flames atone, Who no mercy e'er has shewn, And now let us all united Sing the verse of old indited, Join in chorus ev'ry one. DONNA ELVIRA, ZERLINA, DON OCTAVIO, MASETTO and LEPORELLO He who wrought for selfish pleasure, Shall depart without, yes without a friend.
Just imagine how scared people had to be when they had seen commandatore in 1787, when thay were truely scared by the God and hell PS: Mozart, you genius!!!
I don't think they were scared so much... the 18th century was the era of illuminism and theathre was very popular in that period. I think they enjoyed this masterpiece as much as we do now
I love this scene but what often screws it up is the SCREAM Giovanni gives as he is dragged to hell. It so often sounds comic or forced. At least this one does sound half-way realistic! After all, the poor guy is having his guts torn out and being burned alive!
I was first introduced to this opera and Mozarts music when I watched Amadeus for the first time way back in my 6th grade music class in 1993 or 1994.. I really started to get into classical music after that. Don Giovanni is my favorite Mozart opera.
The tune that begins at 3:40, "Non piu andrai" is from Mozart's previous opera "The Marriage of Figaro." The audience would have recognized it immediately and probably applauded. I believe the same is true of some of the other tunes that DG identifies earlier in the scene.
The great singer who plays Don Gio is hot as hell 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 great production🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩this is a great performance ❤❤❤❤❤
Don Giovanni ! Das Beste Opernstück, von W.A. Mozart ! Da spürt man die Zeit, des 18. Jahrhundert. Einfach Klasse ! S.Klann
When I discovered this version, I couldn't help but think, the most frugal production does achieve the most impressive results!!!
I'm flabbergasted every time I listen to this final scene how Kurt Moll and other established Commendatore voices now may rest at ease, there's a wonderful new generation of opera singers and boy do they deliver!!
fantastic young singers but this cannot be a frugal production, this set is mid tier opera company level haha! for a university this looks high budget! i've seen cheaper looking sets at summer festivals in Europe
This production took me totally by surprise, so there is still Greatness in the midst of the U.S.A.
Jonathan Bryan's technique, both acting and singing, were flawless. BRAVO, good sir! What an amazing production!
Bravo 👏 I enjoy this amazing production thank you for sharing. ( Fabulous).
I have seen this so many times, live and on RUclips, and I have to say that the whole cast is great! Amazing work!
Wonderful production amazing thank you for sharing!!!
This is my favorite Mozart Opera. Well acted and dung by all.
Szerelmes vagyok ebbe az operába! My favoit opera! Will be 2021.09.04. in BUDAPEST!!! MÜPA! A Budafoki Dohnányiék előadásában.
DON GIOVANNI
Ah, I see the table's ready,
Play a gay and festive measure.
Costly is my cup of'pleasure;
And I'll drain it to the end.
Leporello, serve the supper.
LEPORELLO
All is ready to command.
[Musicians begin to play on the stage, Don Giovanni eating]
Bravi! «Cosa rara!»
DON GIOVANNI
Is this music to thy liking?
LEPORELLO
I must own I have heard some things more striking.
DON GIOVANNI
Here's a dish to be commended!
LEPORELLO
[aside]
Would this meal were safely ended!
While I watch his giant mouthfuls,
I his courage comprehend.
DON GIOVANNI
[aside]
While he watches ev'ry mouthful,
Who on me is to attend?
Wine here!
LEPORELLO
Ready!
Long life to «I litiganti»!
DON GIOVANNI
Fill my goblet!
Leporello pours wine.
Choice aroma, goodly vintage!
[Leporello changes Don Giovanni's plate.]
LEPORELLO
[aside]
I'll devour this piece of pheasant,
Softly, softly, while I downwards bend.
DON GIOVANNI
None to serve me, this is pleasant,
Rascal, say, wilt thou attend?
LEPORELLO
That's a song I have heard but too often.
DON GIOVANNI
[without looking at him]
Leporello!
LEPORELLO
[with his mouth full]
Yes, sir, coming!
DON GIOVANNI
Well, speak out, man, what art thou mumbling?
LEPORELLO
I beseech you, stay from grumbling,
I've a cold that will not mend.
DON GIOVANNI
I expect thee to amuse me.
LEPORELLO
Sir, I can't.
DON GIOVANNI
Why not?
LEPORELLO
Excuse me! When such viands dainty invite me,
Wonder not if I partake, wonder not if l partake.
DON GIOVANNI
It is clear thou must partake, it is clear thou must partake.
DONNA ELVIRA
[rushing in distractedly]
Love bids me venture,
One more endeavour,
Ere we forever
Asunder fly.
Though you may scorn me,
I'll not resent,
I come to warn thee!
DON GIOVANNI and LEPORELLO
[rising]
Pray, why?
DONNA ELVIRA
[kneeling]
With love I've ended
Joy long hath left me,
Lone and unfriended
I long to die.
DON GIOVANNI
You quite surprise me.
Your wish reveal then!
If you must kneel then,
Why, so must I -
[kneels]
DONNA ELVIRA
Cruel deride me not,
For thee I'm sueing!
LEPORELLO
Her wrongs are all forgot,
For him she's sueing!
DON GIOVANNI
Come, sweet one, chide me not!
He gets up and raises her.
Nay, sweet one, chide me not
with affected tenderness
Why wilt thou cry?
DONNA ELVIRA
Thy life amend thou!
DON GIOVANNI
Bravo!
DONNA ELVIRA
Misguided one!
DON GIOVANNI
This fooling end now
seats himself again at the table, and begins to eat
When thou hast supped well,
No more thou'lt sigh!
DONNA ELVIRA
Wretch, I abandon thee,
More and more hateful,
Ever detested be,
Thee I disown!
[Exit.]
LEPORELLO
If he relents not
To see her grieving,
His heart deceiving's hard as stone!
DON GIOVANNI
Maidens both fair and young,
Good wine, and plenty,
To these are praises due,
To these alone!
[Donna Elvira returns and rushes out at the opposite side.]
DONNA ELVIRA
Ah!
DON GIOVANNI and LEPORELLO
A scream, what can have happen'd?
DON GIOVANNI
Go and see, go and see, what is the matter.
LEPORELLO
[goes, and when off the stage cries out]
Ah!
DON GIOVANNI
What ever means this clatter?
Leporello art thou mad?
LEPORELLO
Oh, good Sir! For heav'n sake,
Not a step do that way take,
[Leporello returns dismayed, and shuts the door]
White and stony, he's behind me,
Oh good master, I'm fainting, don't mind me,
If you saw his marble features,
If you heard him nearer draw,
Ta, ta, ta, ta.
DON GIOVANNI
I believe thou art demented.
One could scare thee with a straw!
[Knocking heard at the door.]
LEPORELLO
Hark! He's coming!
DON GIOVANNI
Some one's knocking
Open.
LEPORELLO
[trembling]
I dare not!
DON GIOVANNI
Go this instant!
LEPORELLO
Ah!
DON GIOVANNI
Coward, if I would be enlightened,
I must go myself and see, I'll go and see.
[takes a light and goes to open the door]
LEPORELLO
Oh, to death I sure am frightened,
Here I'll hide where none can see.
[Leporello hides under the table.]
THE COMMANDANT
Don Giovanni! Be thee invited,
Here behold me, as thou'st directed.
DON GIOVANNI
Truly I did not expect it,
But anew I'll sup with thee,
Leporello, serve the table,
For my guest another cover!
LEPORELLO
[puts his head out from under the table]
Sir, be still, say no more!
DON GIOVANNI
Go, directly!
[Leporello rises as if to obey.]
THE COMMANDANT
No need of that,
Earthly food he no longer desireth,
Who of heavenly food hath partaken,
Cast away from thee now all such trifling,
Heed the sentence I hither have brought.
LEPORELLO
Sure a fit of the ague hath seiz'd me,
Of all motion bereft, I'm distraught!
DON GIOVANNI
Well, what would'st thou? Well, I listen.
THE COMMANDANT
Silence, and mark me, this hour thou hast sought.
DON GIOVANNI
Speak then, tell me, of fear know I nought.
THE COMMANDANT
Thou didst thyself invite me,
For that I must requite thee,
Then answer me, then answer me,
As my guest, when shall I claim thee?
LEPORELLO
[standing far off, trembling]
Say no, say no;
He is engag'd, excuse him.
DON GIOVANNI
Of fear none shall accuse me,
To none will I succumb!
THE COMMANDANT
Determine!
DON GIOVANNI
I have determined...
THE COMMANDANT
Thou'lt come, then?
LEPORELLO
Say that you can't, that you can't.
DON GIOVANNI
My heart is firm within me,
I have no fear, I'll come.
THE COMMANDANT
Give me thy hand in token!
DON GIOVANNI
Take it then. Ah, me!
THE COMMANDANT
What is't?
DON GIOVANNI
What deadly chill is this!
THE COMMANDANT
Turn thee, ere heav'n hath doom'd thee,
There's time yet for repentance.
DON GIOVANNI
[vainly tries to free himself]
For me there's no repentance,
Vanish thou from my sight!
THE COMMANDANT
Dread then, the wrath eternal.
DON GIOVANNI
Away, thou spectre infernal!
THE COMMANDANT
Yes, repent!
DON GIOVANNI
No!
THE COMMANDANT
Yes, repent!
DON GIOVANNI
No!
THE COMMANDANT
Yes!
DON GIOVANNI
No!
THE COMMANDANT
Yes! Now must my soul take flight!
[Exit.]
[Flames appear in all directions, the earth trembles.]
DON GIOVANNI
Terrors unknown are freezing me,
Demons of doom are seizing me,
Is hell let loose to torture me?
Or does it mock my sight?
CHORUS
[from below, with hollow voices]
Torments eternal wait thee!
Burning in endless night!
DON GIOVANNI
My soul is rent in agony!
Condemn'd to endless misery,
Oh, doom of wrath and terror,
No more to see the light!
LEPORELLO
The fire of doom surrounds him,
Its fiery glare confounds him,
What sounds, what sights of terror,
Oh, I shall die, oh, I shall die of fright!
[The flames increase and engulph Don Giovanni.]
DONNA ELVIRA, DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA and DON OCTAVIO
Where is the miscreant?
Where is the traitor?
MASETTO
By fate o'ertaken.
Now fallen low, now fallen low!
DONNA ANNA
Seize him,
Imprison him,
Who ne'er relented,
No mercy shew.
LEPORELLO
Not here you'll find him,
For ever vanish'd,
Flames went behind him,
He's gone below.
ALL OTHERS
Say, what befell him?
Quick, tell us all you know.
LEPORELLO
That man gigantic, he's driv'n me frantic.
Nothing I'll garble, that man of marble,
Grim and tremendous, oh, heav'n defend us.
Came here and warn'd him. He madly scorn'd him,
'Mid flamings sulphurous he went below in fire and thunder.
THE OTHERS
Truly, a wonder!
LEPORELLO
Truly, a wonder!
DONNA ANNA, DONNA ELVIRA, ZERLINA, DON OCTAVIO and MASETTO
I saw the spectre with mien of woe.
DON OCTAVIO
Heav'n itself then our cause has righted.
Days of peace now dawn before us,
Grant, oh, grant then the vows plighted,
Now at last may be fulfill'd.
DONNA ANNA
I but ask thee, oh, my belov'd one,
To delay but one short year ...
Lover's pleadings are commandments,
On thy faithful love I build.
DONNA ELVIRA
To a convent I betake me,
There to end my troubled life.
ZERLINA AND MASETTO
Now dear, wait no longer till we two are man and wife.
LEPORELLO
And I'll seek another master,
And begin another life.
ZERLINA, MASETTO AND LEPORELLO
And let him in flames atone,
Who no mercy e'er has shewn,
And now let us all united
Sing the verse of old indited,
Join in chorus ev'ry one.
DONNA ELVIRA, ZERLINA, DON OCTAVIO, MASETTO and LEPORELLO
He who wrought for selfish pleasure,
Shall depart without, yes without a friend.
Just imagine how scared people had to be when they had seen commandatore in 1787, when thay were truely scared by the God and hell
PS: Mozart, you genius!!!
I know, right. Imagine what the requiem must have done to these poor people
I don't think they were scared so much... the 18th century was the era of illuminism and theathre was very popular in that period. I think they enjoyed this masterpiece as much as we do now
Sokadszor megézve is borzongok Don Giovanni pokolra kerülésénél...
BRAVISSIMO!
Congratulation! A great surprise. I would like to see the whole performance. Where can I get it?
Thank you!! It should be available on Indiana University’s website! (IU Opera Theatre)
The "best" A cenar teco !!!
Pentiti, No. Don Giovanni knew who he was and went to hell on his own terms.
The Don's sin was pride. I shall not repent, even though it will send me to Hell.
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I love this scene but what often screws it up is the SCREAM Giovanni gives as he is dragged to hell. It so often sounds comic or forced. At least this one does sound half-way realistic! After all, the poor guy is having his guts torn out and being burned alive!
As the Dementors take Don Giovanni off to Azkaban....
The orchestra is drowning the singing.
It’s lovely but I think Giovanni forgot to kneel down… He only knelt down after he sang “se non sorgete non resto in pie’ “ but it’s great 👍🏻