This season, the company presents Don Giovanni for the eleventh time. It was the first opera the company ever produced in early 1954 and gave Lyric Opera of Chicago a great start. Interestingly, he is punished not by the people whom he hurt and who look for revenge he punishes himself by irresponsibly sinning and forgetting about God.įor Lyric Opera of Chicago, Don Giovanni is a very meaningful operatic work. At the end, he has to pay for all his sins.
He causes lots of harm and pain and even death, thinking that he can escape consequences. Being a villain with boyish energy and charming manners, he takes what he wants and lives only for his own pleasure without worrying about other people's feelings, especially the feelings of numerous women whom he seduces. Don Giovanni hurts, yet still attracts women. It is true now, and it was true hundreds of years ago. The story depicted in this opera is as old as this world. It is not surprising, then, that the opera carries Biblical views and values while demonstrating various kinds of sin shown with the help of Mozart's thrilling and dramatic music. He was inspired by the legends of fictional libertine and seducer Don Juan by the Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk Tirso de Molina. This two-act opera is a blend of comedy, melodrama and tragedy with the libretto by Italian opera librettist, poet, and Roman Catholic priest Lorenzo Da Ponte. Don Giovanni premiered in 1787, just four years before the composer's premature death at 35. Don Giovanni is Mozart's 19th opera out of 22 operatic works that he composed during his short but extremely productive life.
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