Don Giovanni's Progress: A Rake Goes to the Opera

by Nino Pirrotta

Book Overview

A high-ranked but dissolute character invites to dinner the funerary statue of a nobleman he killed in a duel after dishonoring his daughter. Thus the stage is set for the most dreadful of punishments, arguably the central moment in the life of Don Giovanni - one of the most fertile and suggestive myths of Western culture. The celebrated character who would captivate Mozart, Byron, Richard Strauss, and Stravinski, among others, comes down to us through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941419940
• ISBN13: 9780941419949
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"