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'''''Don Giovanni''''' (full title ''Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni'' - En. "The Rake punished," K. 527) is a two-act [[opera]] composed in 1787 by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] to an [[Italian language|Italian]] [[libretto]] by Lorenzo da Ponte. This would be their second of three joint ventures, all three of them masterpieces. Its plot deals with the downfall and eventual punishment of the legendary womanizer, known in other works as Don Juan.
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'''''Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni''''' (En. '''''The Rake punished, or Don Giovanni''''', K. 527) is a two-act [[opera]] composed in 1787 by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] to an [[Italian language|Italian]] [[libretto]] by Lorenzo da Ponte. This would be their second of three joint ventures, all three of them masterpieces. Its plot deals with the downfall and eventual punishment of the legendary womanizer, known in other works as Don Juan.
    
''Don Giovanni'' was perhaps considered Mozart's greatest opera by listeners and critics of the 19th century, and is still among the ten most-performed operas throughout the world.<ref>http://opera.stanford.edu/misc/Dornic_survey.html</ref> It was first performed in [[Prague]] in 1787, and shortly thereafter premiered (in modified form) in Vienna.  
 
''Don Giovanni'' was perhaps considered Mozart's greatest opera by listeners and critics of the 19th century, and is still among the ten most-performed operas throughout the world.<ref>http://opera.stanford.edu/misc/Dornic_survey.html</ref> It was first performed in [[Prague]] in 1787, and shortly thereafter premiered (in modified form) in Vienna.  
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