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How does Don Giovanni trick Masetto while dressed as Leporello?
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Don Giovanni
Illustration (c. 1914) of a scene from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (1787), in which Don Giovanni attempts to seduce Zerlina.
In Act II of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni disguises himself as his servant, Leporello, to evade capture and pursue his romantic interests. While in this disguise, he encounters Masetto and a group of armed villagers who are searching for him.1
To trick Masetto, the disguised Don Giovanni pretends that he has left his master and directs the group to search for Don Giovanni in different directions. Once he has successfully isolated Masetto from the others, he tricks him into handing over his weapons, at which point he thrashes him and flees, leaving Masetto injured on the ground.1