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Article: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni)(Video recording review)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Don Giovanni. DVD. Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Riccardo Muti. With Carlos Alvarez, Adrianne Pieczonka, Angelika Kirchschlager, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Michael Schade, Lorenzo Regazzo, and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo. Directed by Roberto de Simone. Ratingen, Germany: TDK, 2005. DVUS-OPDG. $26.99.
The seemingly timeless archetype embodied in the Don Juan legend actually received its first full dramatic setting in Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla (1630). In addition to Mozart's Don Giovanni, versions of the story by Moliere, Byron, Dumas, Strauss, and Shaw subsequently solidified the character in the public ...