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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.
The Italian libretto for Don Giovanni was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.12
Da Ponte, an Italian poet and librettist who served as the court poet to Emperor Joseph II, collaborated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on three of his most famous operas, including Don Giovanni (1787). For this work, Da Ponte used a libretto by Giovanni Bertati as a model, which had been set by Giuseppe Gazzaniga earlier that same year, and expanded it by inserting new episodes into the original one-act structure.12