He's handsome cunning and utterly merciless. Don Giovanni's lustful desires have left a trail of heartbreak and shattered dreams; but in the wake of a life lived to excess and devoid of honour his day of reckoning finally approaches ... pursued by those he has wronged he is soon to discover the awful consequences of his actions (Opera Queensland review Aug 2003) The premiere of Don Giovanni took place to great public and critical acclaim in Prague on October 29 1787. The Opera is in two acts with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the play by Tirso De Molina. The English version is by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

Batti Batti O Bel Masetto is taken from the Opera Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is widely regarded as one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed and of the many operas based on the legend of Don Juan Mozart's is thought to be beyond comparison. The opera was billed as dramma giocoso or playful drama belonging to a genre neither completely comic nor completely tragic. In the original production the actors alternated between spoken recitative and sung aria but most modern productions use the secco-recitatives composed by Mozart in place of the spoken text.

Le Mariage de Figaro, Don Giovanni et La Flûte enchantée sont trois des opéras les plus aimés et réalisé par Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, mis à livrets de Lorenzo da Ponte et Emanuel Schikaneder. Disponible depuis de nombreuses années, ces trois partitions vocales avec des réductions de piano dans 'La Royal Edition des opéras de la série chez Boosey and Hawkes disposent traductions chanter en anglais par Edward J Dent à côté du texte chanté original et les notes liminaires. / Voix Et Piano