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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 the opera Don Giovanni, Donna Anna asks her fiancé, Don Ottavio, to seek revenge because Don Giovanni broke into her home, attempted to seduce her, and subsequently killed her father, the Commandant, during a duel.1
After discovering her father’s body, Anna makes Ottavio swear to avenge his death. Later, upon recognizing Don Giovanni’s voice as that of her attacker, she recounts the traumatic events of that night to Ottavio and again implores him to pursue vengeance against the nobleman.1