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How does Donna Elvira stop Don Giovanni’s first attempt to seduce Zerlina?
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Illustration (c. 1914) of a scene from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (1787), in which Don Giovanni attempts to seduce Zerlina.
In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira interrupts Don Giovanni’s first attempt to seduce Zerlina by appearing on the scene just as Zerlina has been won over by his promises of marriage. Elvira warns Zerlina against him, effectively stopping the encounter, and the two women leave together.1