The most famous duet from this work has seen variations written on it by Danzi and Chopin, and is followed by "Ah, fuggi il traditor!".
The most famous duet from this work has seen variations written on it by Danzi and Chopin, and is followed by "Ah, fuggi il traditor!". The overture opens with two diminished seventh chords and a D-minor scale, a figure that appears again in the climactic penultimate scene. In that scene, the servant sings "Gia la mensa preparata" to the title character before a murdered character reappears, singing "A cenar teco m'invitasti". The titular sinner is urged to repent, but he refuses twice while his servant Leporello cowers under a table. For 10 points, name this piece with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte in which a statue crashes a banquet to banish the title wooer of Zerlina and Elvira, an opera of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The most famous duet from this work has seen variations written on it by Danzi and Chopin, and is followed by "Ah, fuggi il traditor!".
{Don Giovanni}