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What happens to Donna Elvira at the end of Don Giovanni?
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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.
At the end of the opera Don Giovanni, after the title character is dragged to hell by the statue of the Commandant, the surviving characters gather to reflect on the events. In the final epilogue, Donna Elvira decides that she will retire to a convent.1