from Act II, Scene I of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Don Giovanni, a profligate nobleman

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: The front of an inn

Synopsis: After Leporello has led Donna Elvira away, Don Giovanni serenades her chambermaid.

from Act I, Scene V of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Don Giovanni, a profligate nobleman

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: The garden of the palace of Don Giovanni

Synopsis: As Don Giovanni arrives at his palace with the peasants awaiting the wedding party of Masetto and Zerlina inside, he declares that there shall be an incredible party with much wine and many women.

from Act II, Scene I of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Don Giovanni, a profligate nobleman

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: The front of an inn

Synopsis: Masetto and his peasant friends meet up with Don Giovanni, who is disguised as Leporello. They are looking to capture Don Giovanni for seducing Zerlina. He offers to help them find himself and suggests that he and Masetto should search in one group and the rest of the peasants should go off in another group.

from Act I, Scene IV of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fiance

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: tenor leggiero

Setting: The countryside near the palace of Don Giovanni

Synopsis: After Donna Anna asks Don Ottavio, her fiance, to take revenge of Don Giovanni for killing her father, she leaves, at which point Don Ottavio express his love and worry for her.

from Act II, Scene II of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fiance

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: tenor leggiero

Setting: A cemetary

Synopsis: Sure that Don Giovanni was the person who killed his fiancee's father, Don Ottavio swears that he will make sure Donna Anna gets her revenge on Don Giovanni.

from Act I, Scene IV of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Donna Anna, a noblewoman, Don Ottavio's fiancee, daughter of Commendatore Seville.

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: dramatic coloratura

Setting: The countryside near the palace of Don Giovanni

Synopsis: Having just met Don Giovanni and enlisted his help in finding her father's murderer, Donna Anna afterwards realizes that Don Giovanni was the one who killed him. She asks Don Ottavio to get revenge for her.

from Act II, Scene V of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Donna Anna, a noblewoman, Don Ottavio's fiancee, daughter of Commendatore Seville.

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: dramatic coloratura

Setting: A room in the palace of Donna Anna

Synopsis: Donna Anna, who is still strongly affected by her father's death, asks that Don Ottavio cease talking about marriage until she has had time to get over this tragedy. She still loves him, she says, but would like him to be patient.

from Act I, Scene III of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Donna Elvira, a noblewoman seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: spinto

Setting: The countryside

Synopsis: After Don Giovanni succeeds in convincing Zerlina that he really loves her, he begins to take her away. Donna Elvira intervenes, though.

from Act I, Scene II of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Donna Elvira, a noblewoman seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: spinto

Setting: A street at daybreak.

Synopsis: Donna Elvira, having been betrayed by a lover, vows to either get back her lover or kill him.

from Act II, Scene III of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Donna Elvira, a noblewoman seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: spinto

Setting: A cemetary

Synopsis: Alone, Donna Elvira reflects on Don Giovanni, whose guilt she cannot deny even though she still feels affection towards him.

from Act II, Scene II of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Leporello, servant of Don Giovanni

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: A cemetary

Synopsis: After Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, and Masetto and his peasants find Leporello (who is disguised as Don Giovanni), they want to bring him to justice for all his wrong-doings. Leporello then takes off the disguise and shows them that he is not, in fact, Don Giovanni. When Masetto then accuses him of beating him up, Leporello explains to him that it couldn't have been him, since he was with Donna Elvira the entire time.

from Act I, Scene II of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Leporello, servant of Don Giovanni

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: A street at daybreak

Synopsis: After Donna Elvira confronts Don Giovanni, who had betrayed her, Leporello tells her that she should forget him, and then produces a book of the Don's feminine conquests : 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1003 in Spain.

from Act I, Scene I of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Leporello, servant of Don Giovanni

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: A courtyard in the Commandatore's palace

Synopsis: As the opera opens, Leporello complains that he always has to do the boring work. While his master, Don Giovanni, gets to dally with beautiful women, Leporello just gets to stand outside and keep watch.

from Act I, Scene III of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Masetto, a peasant, Zerlina's fiance

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: lyric baritone

Setting: The countryside

Synopsis: After Don Giovanni meets the wedding celebration of Masetto and Zerlina, he invites them to come to his house. All of them, that is, except Zerlina. Masetto knows he cannot oppose a nobleman, but he is worried about leaving Zerlina alone with Don Giovanni and capitulates to him sarcastically.

from Act I, Scene V of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Zerlina, a peasant girl, Masetto's fiancee

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: soubrette

Setting: The garden of the palace of Don Giovanni

Synopsis: With Masetto angry at Zerlina for going off with Don Giovanni, Zerlina pleads with him to beat her if he wants, but that she is innocent of anything to do with Don Giovanni.

from Act II, Scene I of the Italian opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte

Role: Zerlina, a peasant girl, Masetto's fiancee

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: soubrette

Setting: The front of an inn

Synopsis: After Masetto has been beaten up by Don Giovanni (who is disguised as Leporello), Zerlina finds him and asks what happened. He replies that Leporello beat him up and Zerlina promises to soothe his wounds with her love.