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Article: THERE'LL BE LOTS OF DON JUANS AT WEEKEND IN HIS HONOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A few months after a very young nation went to Philadelphia to
forge an enduring political document -- the Constitution of the
United States -- music lovers in Prague heard the first performance
of what many people believe is the greatest opera ever written.
"The opera of all operas," said the German Romantic poet and
fabulist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, of Mozart's "Don Giovanni," which will
be 200 years old on Oct. 29.
Mozart did not invent Don Juan. Like Faust, Don Juan has cast
his long shadow since the middle ages. Like Faust, he has required
every age to explain him, and, in explaining him, we give ourselves
away.
"Don Juan Through the Centuries" is the theme for an
action-packed weekend, ...