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Which earlier librettist provided a model for Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni libretto?
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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.
For his libretto for Don Giovanni, Lorenzo Da Ponte used as a model a libretto written by Giovanni Bertati, which had been set to music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga and performed in Venice earlier in 1787. Da Ponte expanded upon this one-act original by rewriting the text and inserting new episodes.1