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What happens when Don Giovanni invites the Commandant’s statue to supper?
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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.
When Don Giovanni invites the Commandant’s statue to supper, the statue accepts the invitation with a horrifying nod of its head.1
Later, during the supper scene in the dining hall, the statue arrives and announces its presence. While the statue refuses mortal food, it invites Don Giovanni to sup with it in return. When Giovanni gives the statue his hand as a promise, he finds himself trapped in its marble grasp. The statue demands that the libertine repent for his actions, but Giovanni steadfastly refuses. Consequently, the statue proclaims Giovanni’s fate, and the rake is dragged down to hell by the supernatural force as flames surround them.123