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Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra,[1] (English: Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest) also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio[2] is a one-act opera (dramma giocoso) by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 5 February 1787, the same day as Francesco Gardi's opera Don Giovanni in the same city at the Teatro San Samuele.[3] The libretto, by Giovanni Bertati, is based on the legend of Don Juan as told by Tirso de Molina in his play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (c. 1630), leading to comparisons with Mozart's Don Giovanni which had its premiere later in 1787. Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, certainly knew the earlier opera. Gazzaniga's work is much shorter than Mozart's, and originally formed part of a double-bill with another piece, Il capriccio drammatico.
- ^ "Don Giovanni (i)" by Mary Hunter, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (subscription required) gives: Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra and Don Giovanni Tenorio
- ^ "tenorio" has become a Spanish word for "seducer, womanizer": "tenorio", Real Academia Española (in Spanish); "tenorio", Pons-Verlag
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Giovanni, 5 February 1787". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).