L’orologio di Don Giovanni1 Tra Bertati e Da Ponte
<em>Don Giovanni</em> or <em>the Guest of Stone</em> is an opera in one act by Giovanni Bertati, scored by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, which historically precedes the celebrated version by Da Ponte and Mozart by a few months. It has of course been studied, mainly by musicologists, as...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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2002-11-01
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| Series: | Quaderns d'Italià |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/quadernsitalia/article/view/121 |
| Summary: | <em>Don Giovanni</em> or <em>the Guest of Stone</em> is an opera in one act by Giovanni Bertati, scored by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, which historically precedes the celebrated version by Da Ponte and Mozart by a few months. It has of course been studied, mainly by musicologists, as the principal source of the Da Ponte libretto, but more from the point of view of borrowed details than the structural consequences derived from its continual temporal restriction and closure of an event that had for a century, on the contrary, represented the freedom of open structure and time that Spanish dramaturgy opposed to the Aristotelian regime of the Italian and French theatre. Starting from this short libretto, the author attempts a brief analysis of the treatment of space-thunderstorm in the most famous scene of Don Giovanni, from Spain to Italy to France and from the theatre of words to the opera. |
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| ISSN: | 1135-9730 2014-8828 |