"Bejayzus!" "Don Giovanni!" "Do you want to take the name of Emanuel Conegliano?" "Yes, I want" "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" "Amen" "This show disgusts me" "Jews are debased, forced to accept a religion that does not belong with them and only for a widower to marry a Christian girl" "Do you want to take the name of Emanuel Conegliano?" "Do you want to take the name of Emanuel Conegliano?" "Mr Casanova Have you gone mad?" " Why?" "Do not be scandalized, for God's sake" "Emanuele Conegliano, you want to join the faith of Christ our Lord?" "It's Beatriz" "Beatriz was the muse, Dante's great love the poet of The Divine Comedy" " I think one of the most sublime works ever conceived by the human mind" "Yes, son." "A true masterpiece" "If you come back to the altar you can visit my library anytime and read this book, this beautiful book" "Do you want to take the name of Lorenzo da Ponte?" "Say, if you want it Yes, I want it ll give you my name." "Do you realize the gift that this is?" "Your name is Lorenzo da Ponte, as is mine" "This name will open the doors of Venice and I'll help you succeed within the church and maybe one day, Lorenzo da Ponte, you can reach great heights" "Words of Satan!" "!" "Traitor!" "Infamous!" "Infamous!" "!" "God punishes you!" "Stop this shit, infamous!" "Leave him alone!" "Damn!" "May God curse you!" "This man deserves no indignant mortification" "What you have done!" "Have you told my name?" "Follow me" "You have blood on your hands, Lorenzo da Ponte" "Especially in these days when thugs like Barbarigo are on alert in all of Venice" "You lost the trial and were publicly disgraced" "This poor person took the collar for my cause" "Took the collar for printing your verses to sell at a great price" "It may be idealistic, to love taking risks." "I understand well, but not enough Lorenzo." "We need to know to avoid the danger when it endangers life itself" "It may be impetuous and passionate, but not stupid!" "This printer may cost you your life" "In times of sweet sighs, then tell me How to love knowing it so dangerous?" "And she to me:" "There is no greater pain, than in misery to remember the happy time, and that your doctor knows" "Father ..." "Can love ... .. Transcend the barriers of spirituality?" "Are you referring to physical love?" "Carnal?" "He molested me, father" " Who?" "It bothers me." "It pursues me." "I take it to bed" "Are you talking about, perhaps, your adoptive father?" "Your uncle Barbarigo, which so successfully directs the Holy Inquisition ..." "He's not your father's flesh, Francesca, but you are his adopted daughter ... .. You are free to choose your lover" "You are a woman in the prime of life" " Bella" " I love you" "Just thinking of you, Lorenzo" "I love you" "No sleep, no life thinking of you and I want you, Francesca, I desire you, my love" "Excellence, good morning" "In times of sweet sighs ..." "Francesca Barbarigo father" " Excellence" " What lay is so beautful?" " Canto the fifth of Dante's Hell where the poet describes the penalties of hell reserved for the lustful" "I knew to such a torment sentenced were the sins of the flesh .." "When the reason is subjected to the desire" "Sorry to interrupt your lesson, my dear Lorenzo, but I must speak urgently" "For weeks, I have tried to find that blasphemer accusing the Holy Inquisition of obfuscating the minds and being the cause of the ruin of Venice" "A modest poet, writing satirical verses citing the blasphemous ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau and the French Illuminati" "Illustrated, your lordship" "Enlightened by the devil!" "and surely inspired by the ideas of that so blasphemous Giacomo Casanova" "Your friend" " A sinner who will be sorry soon, God willing" "Well, we've finally laid hands ... .. on one of those who distribute these verses in Venice" "a clandestine compositor who has revealed that the man whom we seek belongs to the Masons" "and could be a priest" "A priest Mason?" "The enemy in our own ranks" "It has taken effort to confess that unfortunate" "My God" "Lorenzo, I pray." "I am very interested that the representation" "of a character the greatness of Don Giovanni be worthy of contempt" "Come on, Maestro Giacomo, do not be angry" "Who will be the greatest such libertine?" "And I just ask you" "Don Giovanni represents and authenticates the only virtue the freedom to enjoy our nature free from the bondage of morality and feelings" "Don Giovanni says 'To enjoy one moment of earthly life is worth eternity'" "Twenty" "Love, Cupid." "Number two." "Red, inside bottom" "Damn." "Loving father I need more coins" "Damn bad luck, we're broke" "If you allow me, beautiful lady I will be pleased to help" "The lady is with me" "To reject the money of a gentleman is not worthy of a lady but of a peasant" "Lorenzo but why don't you make your peace in the room of sighs?" "Sir ..." "Sir." "Help me." "I have not enough money" "I would like to help you but unfortunately the bad luck has also mistreated me" "Brother" "Here." "Take this" "Thanks bro" "I promise that we will divide earnings" "San Gregorio, 12" " I have your half" "But this must be at least 50 ducats" "The money comes, goes" "It does not give life, but it helps us to bear it" "I fear I have not made you come by money" "Listen." "Follow me" "Look." "I am old tired and sick" "I have little life left and give up this world leaving nothing" "that can ennoble a life dissipated between game tables and pawnshops with one exception" "It is my only daughter" "His mother died in childbirth she is what I love most in life" " Beatriz?" " Not Beatriz" "No." "Annetta." "Annetta" "Annetta" "Swear to me to care for and protect her forever after my death" "I swear" "I can not ..." "I'm not worthy your trust" "Halt!" "Lorenzo da Ponte!" "You are arrested in the name of the Holy Inquisition" "At the court of the Inquisition you are judged guilty you have conspired against the church and against the state" "Having broken the holy promise to observe the rules, sworn to by you, on behalf of Our Lord Jesus Christ" "For licentiousness, the prohibited affiliation to a Masonic society, profanity" "Sacrilege and public concubinage, and to provide an example and warning to all people" "I condemn ... .. and sentence you to 15 years of exile and separation from the Most Serene Republic of Venice" "Fifteen years of exile?" "Magnificent!" "Have you come out unscathed?" "Come on, a sip for each year." "Lorenzo" " Spirit!" "With your talent you will not be difficult to find work in Vienna it is also a beautiful city with people open to new ideas" "Those are respected there, Lorenzo" "It is a letter for Antonio Salieri, master composer at the court of Emperor" "He will help" "Sufficient to present yourself to him with my warmest recommendations" "You can not get an idea of my gratitude, teacher" "During all these years, your wise teachings have guided me and now I can never give you back the good you have done saving my life" "Oh God" "Oh My God" "Look, Look" "Stand" "Don Giovanni" "This Don Giovanni was doomed just reward for having abused a character worthy of further consideration" "Well, sir?" "Pardon me, I would not make so bold ..." "Let me introduce myself." "My name is Lorenzo da Ponte" "Delighted to meet you, Brother Lawrence" "My name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" "It is strange that you know me, a complete unknown" "I believe in meeting all brothers" "In fact, I just came to Vienna" "Went to the theater of the court,when your music has brought to my attention" "Theatre of the court?" "Are you perhaps a musician?" "No." "I am not." "I am a writer and poet" "But I seek a compatriot, Antonio Salieri." "He is a musician" "Yes." "The great Antonio Salieri." "The big Italian family" "I congratulate you, you're in good hands." "Salieri is a fortunate man with the support of powerful people" "Brother Lorenzo, welcome to Vienna and good luck!" "This ..." "It's really rude" "And you, maestro Salieri" " How can you permit such rudeness without intervening?" "I beg you, Madam Cavalieri, there's no reason to take offense" "Right." "A brief break for all" "This is certainly really rude" "So this is the welcome for an artist in Vienna" "Is this how you celebrate the bel canto?" "Love, listen It needs not a word" "You wanted to humiliate me by inviting that brazen puppy to your opera" "Maestro Salieri." "My name is Lorenzo da Ponte, I just came to Vienna" "I wanted to ask you ..." "While I am busy here, I beg you wait outside." "Now I can not listen to you very well" "I am sent by Giacomo Casanova" "Forgive me if I have seemed unkind, but today is not the most tranquil" "Majesty!" "Your visit honors us greatly" "The honor is mine." "As you know I am passionate about your work although it appears that I have come at a bad time" "You told me rehearsals start today" "God knows ..." "His Excellency the Count, in fact, is right only that you, you just arrived during a brief break" "And I'll immediately resume rehearsals;" "Please do not inconvenience yourselves, I can wait" "Again, here there are things to admire, in abundance" "And how are things going with our second grace, the Lady Ferrarese?" "Your idea of bringing Lady Cavalieri, to my new opera and Lady Ferrarese is proving an excellent idea, rather, I would say, even wonderful" "your Majesty, permit me to introduce Padre Lorenzo da Ponte a most dear friend and talented poet." "Just arrived from Venice" "Majesty, I am delighted to find myself in the presence of the wisest and most enlightened monarch of Europe" "In Venice, where I come from, You are respected and admired" " So you're a poet?" " Yes, majesty" "In addition to curé, libertine and troublemaker" "An exaggerated reputation which is not appropriate, majesty" "Mr. da Ponte, exiled from Venice is seeking employment" "Your Majesty may perhaps ... do something for him" "Of course" "Vienna needs now more than ever, poets, of fresh blood, new momentum, builders, especially in the opera" "Maestro Salieri, what you say if we trusted our friend da Ponte with the libretto your next opera?" "Forgive me" " I fear Majesty I may not live up to such a task" "I have never written an opera text" "You lack experience in the field of opera, I do not think a serious obstacle" "On the contrary, we need new talents, new ideas, to renew our opera" "Even more so if my ideas please the Maestro Salieri" "You mean we'll have a virgin muse" "Majesty, let me remind you that Maestro Salieri is already committed with the poet ..." "Oh yes, Casti, Casti, I had forgotten" "Well, that can be remedied." "Is there another composer here in Vienna with whom you would like to collaborate?" "And why not Mozart?" "Our little rebel from Salzburg." "That's a wonderful idea" "I have long wanted Mr Mozart to address an opera in Italian" "Yes" "Your friend Lorenzo provides you always with the worst texts" "In contrast, he reserves the best for Mozart and that whore Ferrarese" "Forgive me my friend, I did not hear you arrive" "I'm glad you decided not to undertake the journey alone" "Let me introduce you to a dear friend" "Madam ..." "Adriana Ferrarese, the incomparable soprano" "I delighted to first hear you sing The Marriage of Figaro in Prague but now I see you closely" "I must say that the rest of your person fully honors so magnificent a voice" "And I see that the stories I have heard about you, were not exaggerated" "Oh, woe is me." "These are not stories but History" "At my age, I have found the peace of the senses and the work of the spirit is to administer love equally to the memories" "These senses give us return" "His Excellency the Doge has entrusted to me the care of his magnificent library and now I live immersed in dreams and desires that lie between ... .. wild adventures, secrets and impossible loves" "Books are my only comfort" "Ah, we all have a book that can move us" " Lorenzo, is not so?" "East of here, I was expecting" "No, this is for you" "It looks like the book I saw the day of my baptism not just seems, it is the same book when you left Venice, I found it in a bookshop and I thought" "I'll buy it and give it to Lorenzo" "Annetta" "Whatever you were when you left, you were less rich and now ... you are one of the most acclaimed European lyric writers" "I merited your recommendation to Salieri he has helped me to break into the world of music" "Forget Salieri!" "No, he is an excellent musician but ... his obligations in court constitute a major constraint" "You must work more with Mozart he is a highly talented artist" "Your Figaro ... delicious, light, full of imagination" "In the future, this is the way you must go" "That's just what I tell him after the triumph of Figaro Lorenzo must return to work with Mozart" "And why not?" "Me." "You must know he has declined my voice because Salieri who is a villain imposed his own mistress, La Cavalieri the only thing she exercise to perfection is ... well, you can imagine" "Salieri is no villain, La Cavalieri is not a prostitute and I am not married to Mozart" "The truth is that Mozart has very particular tastes and rejects all operassuggested to him" "Pedídmelo and I will write a story worthy of your talent" "What story?" "A new Don Giovanni" "Wolfgang, arise.There are guests that await you" "Who are they?" "Da Ponte and Salieri" "No, do not show them in, I'm not interested" "They want you to write a new opera, look, they have paid us a great advance" "You can't play hard to get and then expect worthwhile payment" "Let me remind you that we don't have funds to pay the maid that neither of us enjoys good health and the medical cure baths I must do in Switzerland cost an arm and a leg" "Enough of your scolding!" "Always telling me what to do" "I have had enough of recriminations" "Stanzi, sorry" "you know that there is nothing in the world that interests me like you" "Let's see what they want to tell me, these two scheming Italians" "Maestro My dearest" "My God, you have gotten worse!" "Maestro Salieri Maestro Mozart" "We come to announce, by order of His Majesty that you are commissioned to compose a new opera" "in Italian, obviously and assisted by the poetic talents our friend da Ponte" "as you know, the Emperor has been very pleased with The Marriage of Figaro" "We will do everything possible to satisfy His Majesty again" "So let me recommend you avoid the scandals check the content, if dubious, in which affront may lie" "But what is it?" "All in good time, Maestro" "In the presentation of an opera, it is necessary to ensure a proper introduction, as in a banquet we must instill a bit of sweetness into everyday work for the public" "Therefore, my dear fellow, if you permit me to advise:" "compose music that is simple, light, listenable so that the fine palates can both digest and enjoy the show" "Sweetness, banquet, tasting, digesting" "Well, if I have understood correctly, Maestro Salieri for you to compose an opera is like making a good desert" "Let's see" "The broken hearts and eggs" "A souçon of intrigue, some flour and for the comic relief, sugar" "Into this beautiful approach Maestro da Ponte puts verses .." "and I insert the notes, everything is baked and the beautiful confection is ready, right?" "Lord, please forgive me." "Other matters require my presence" "Good work" "You have been too hard on him" "Salieri is more sensitive than he looks" "Can you tell me what is the dubious matter that Maestro Salieri referred to?" "This opera will shake and astonish much more than The Marriage of Figaro" "What is it?" "Don Giovanni Don Giovanni" "But if it has already been done dozens of times never as we are doing it" "We will make a Don Giovanni no one will ever forget" "You know well that in ever note I write there is something that is mine" "That which I feel, what I love on the paper there is always a piece of my life" "for me, this is not just work, it's much more." "My music is an inner fire which consumes me" "Why do you want to force me to suffer all this for a subject so ordinary" "Let me convince you" "Let me tell you the start" "Imagine a man wrapped in a broad cloak" "traversing a forest surrounding a sumptuous palace" "It's snowing, it is night and there is a huge full moon in the sky" "the light shining through the trees is not white, but rather blue in this sleepy setting we see a man with his face covered by a wide-brimmed hat" "The man is, you will have guessed it, Don Giovanni" "who has decided to seduce Dona Ana, a young nobleman" "in her upstairs bedroom a beautiful young woman, behold, Dona Ana is sleeping in a big bed" "through her thin nightgown, her immaculate whiteness is seen, a beautiful body but we can't see her face because she has her back to us" "her sleep is restless, her long hair scattered over the pillow the door to the balcony is open and through the curtains moved by the evening breeze appears the silhouette of Don Giovanni" "who enters the room of Dona Ana undresses" "Don Giovanni is incautious and whispers, rapturous, into the ear of Dona Ana" ""Dona Ana, my love, my life"" "Dona Ana, my love, my life" "Dona Ana then realizes that she is not being made love to as she thought by her fiancé but a stranger" "Help!" "!" "Help!" "Feeling exposed, Don Giovanni jumps out of bed and rushes to pick up his clothes, putting them on as he may out on the balcony, he jumps the rail like a scalded cat he drops onto the grounds surrounding the mansion" "and flees through the forest while Dona Ana looks from the balcony, screaming" "Don Giovanni at the end disappears between the spectral trees" "a truly brilliant opening, it is sensual, bold" "Obviously, as much as I have narrated, represents the prelude" "Is that the prelude?" "But dear Mozart, we can not start an opera with such a scene it would be a scandal." "An opera of that type would not run" "Do not remember the recommendations of Salieri?" "Do you want me to care for Salieri's recommendations?" "OK - but then, where to start?" "We start outside the mansion" "With Don Giovanni jumping from the balcony and going before fleeing, Don Giovanni, should fight a duel with the Commander" "Dona Ana's father, who came to her rescue the Commander draws his sword and confronts Don Giovanni" "it is an uneven match, given the ability of Don Giovanni as a swordsman" "Don Giovanni kills the Commander with a stab in the chest" "that murder represents the premise of the whole mess because once the commander is dead" "he can return at the end of the opera as a marble statue" "But do you want to start this way?" "Dropping into the middle of a swordfight without conceding the public the least preparation, no introductory history" "While Don Giovanni is the bedroom of Dona Ana his accomplice is under the balcony" "And who is it?" "Leporello Leporello?" "Of course, Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant who through the follies of his master's romantic loves is himself always in a sea of troubles" "Good thing, a servant in the part of the buffoon: how original!" "whenever you want to get a laugh but not to seem so then you invent a servant or a maid in trouble because of love" "Leporello." "Congratulations, da Ponte" "Leporello, yes" "Toiling night and day" "Lorenzo" "Yes, love?" "You have promised me a beautiful scene, all for me" "An aria in which you can show off my abilities" "You know me so well." "Write me a beautiful aria, love" "Yes, love" "Lorenzo" "I love you" "I love you too, Adriana" "Toiling night and day, with no thanks ..." "To withstand rain and wind ..." "Bad food and poor sleep;" "I want to be a gentleman ..." "I do not want to serve more ..." "A little milk" "Wolfi, you have composed so little" "Why have you been wearing yourself out all morning at it?" "Love, I pray, I'm working" "That's wrong" "It is not right to spend so many hours on so few lines" "It is not easy." "This is the first aria of the opera, the cornerstone." "It must win the public quickly" "Come on, forgive me." "Fatigue, night and day, for one who gives no thanks" "Stanzi treasure, let me compose in peace, eh?" "Anyway, it's time to quit." "Will you not be late?" "Late for what?" "For today's lesson, good grief" "Wolfiie!" "I forgot!" "Let us send a messengerto cancel" "How do I cancel?" "Costanza, I have to work." "I can not go" "Hurry." "That lesson is cash and we need it, now you clean up and go" "Stanzi, Stanzi" "Teacher, teacher, are you okay?" "Yes, yes of course, dear, yes" "Can we go back to playing from the beginning?" "Yes" "What say you?" "What do you think?" "Is it part of your next opera?" "Yes, yes" "And .." "Did you happen to forgive your librettist Lorenzo da Ponte?" "Yes." "Did you know?" "Yes." "For years, in Venice, he was a friend of my father" "I want to be a gentleman" "I do not want to serve any more" "I do not want to serve any more no, no, no, I do not want to serve any more" "Not bad, not bad Leporello" "As Leporello sings only just No, no, no, I do not want to serve more you go on stage breathless still trying to dress after fleeing Dona Ana's bedroom" "Doña Ana dressed only in a nightgown follows Don Giovanni and yells, both because of the shock and from contempt seen that this unknown has abused her in a dream" "She holds the arm of Don Giovanni who tries desperately to get loose but she resists his shakes and jerks" "You, take care to conceal your face with your cloak" "Doña Ana should not see you, you are a stranger to her." "Thus." "Try, try!" "Do not hope if you do not kill me, that I will let you escape" "Insane." "In vain you cry, thou shalt not know who I am" "Here, servants!" "The traitor!" "Hush, my anger and fear Miserable!" "Reckless Very good, very good" "Do not hope if you do not kill me, that I will let you escape" "Insane." "In vain you cry, thou shalt not know who I am" "What tumult!" "Oh heavens, what cries!" "The master again in trouble !" "..." "People!" "... my servants!" "The traitor!" "Hush my anger and fears!" "Miserable!" "Reckless!" "Surely the libertine leads me to Perdition" "What desperate fury chases you forever!" "This desperate fury craves my downfall." "Miserable!" "Reckless!" "Draw your sword, unworthy!" "Fight me!" "I've no wish to battle with you!" "So, would you flee from me?" "If only I could flee from here!" "So, would you flee from me?" "Unhappy man!" "Hold, unless you want to die!" "Ah, help!" "..." "I have been betrayed!" "The murderer has wounded me!" "Ah, the unfortunate falls ..." "Distraught and dying ..." "And from my throbbing breast ..." "I feel my soul depart" "And from his throbbing breast ..." "I see his soul depart" "Very good, very good gentlemen." "Well, well" " Perfect" "A good break for all" "Lady Cavalieri, magnificent." "Magnifica!" "Commander, perfect." "Perfect!" "A couple of things ..." "Excuse me" "Annetta?" "Is it you?" "I told Mozart that I would like to attend the staging of an opera" "I expected to find you, Lorenzo, but at the same time, I was afraid of seeing you" "Scared?" "Why?" "Need you ask?" "The first time I saw you that morning in Venice was like a dream for me" "It was a feeling I never had known before" "But a moment later, you escaped from me as if you were in front of the devil himself" "Annetta." "Before my eyes I found a purity a harmony I would never have imagined could be of this world" "in short, life gave me la gift, undeserved and I felt unworthy, without a vocation" "My father knew your exile and the fact that you had come here to Vienna but wanted me to meet you and tell you he was too old and ill to travel" "Sorry!" "And so, after his death" "I decided to leave Venice and move here, to Vienna" "But why did you not look for me immediately?" "I did not want to be one of your many trophies, Lorenzo" "What do you mean?" "Your reputation as a womanizer." "Your dissipated life." "Wait" "They are verses that I have dedicated" "See your name" "They are for you" "There, let us join hands." "They will tell me yes!" "Look, is not far." "Let us, my dear, depart from here" "Annetta" "My love" "Basically, nothing changes if I believe you or not" "What do you mean?" "It's too late" "How, too late?" "I am promised, Lorenzo, I'm getting married next month" "With whom?" "Not with you." "Pardon" "Adriana, what a surprise" "What are you doing here?" "Who is that?" "Who?" "Don't play the innocent!" "Who's she?" "Anneta di Fiorini, Mozart's pupil" "You're not jealous?" "For all I know, she can not sing" "You started rehearsals without as much as a word, and you wonder why I ask?" "You promised me the lead role and instead you exclude me" "I'll become a laughing stock in Vienna" "What are you saying, darling?" "Today we just talked introductory scenes" "For sure, you want that Cavalieri bitch to warm the bed and you, in exchange for favors, will give her the part of the protagonist" "Adriana please come to your senses" "This jealousy, you are raising to madness" "I had to promise the Cavalieri a small role in order to be supported by Salieri" "Without it, the court would never have approved Don Giovanni" "What about me?" "Barring a few corrections, we're almost finished and I promise within a few days to begin the rehearsals" "You believe that you hardly turn your back but I'm up any skirt that passes by or even La Cavalieri" "It's ridiculous" "You are!" "Are you the only one?" "My Nightingale" "Gentlemen, I present Lorenzo Da Ponte, my lover who has sworn to me love and faithfulness and who after so many lies, now leaves me without even having the courage to tell me to my face" "Leave me alone." "Diabolical madwoman!" "This is how you repay me, wretch, after everything I've done for you?" "Maestro, Maestro!" "Finally." "I have searched all over Vienna for you." "I must speak." "I hope I am not disturbing you." "Not at all, Da Ponte, not at all." "It's a big problem." "Let me guess, you have no new scenes" "I wish it was only that." "The Ferrarese ..." "Have you slain the Cavalieri?" "Has the Cavalieri slain the Ferrarese?" "They have slaughtered each oher." "I'm serious, Mozart." "Today I left the Ferrarese" "Understand now the seriousness of the trouble" "Understand, I understand well." "It is the Ferrarese who wants to behead you!" "Forgive me, Da Ponte, I would not laugh at your misfortune but this woman can be poisonous as a snake." "I would not want to be in your place" "If you care to accept my advice, let it go." "Time erases everything" "But ... but then you don't understand?" "We are embroiled in this disgrace, you, me and the opera and we have to deal, me and the opera, with your love affairs" "That woman is vengeful and spiteful and I have the feeling that to strike back she will do everything to destroy our Don Giovanni" "Believe me." "We are facing a corseted Machiavelli" "Machiavelli in corsets." "But as to her picking on Don Giovanni, she has no active role in the opera" "Here's the thing:" "I promised her a star role that does not exist" "A main role?" "How about a proud woman whom he seduced and then abandoned, who has vowed revenge?" "But, of course." "Thus, in addition to Dona Ana, we put in Don Giovanni's claws yet another angry woman" "I hope at least that the second lady is not called, precisely, Adriana Ferrarese" "Dona Elvira sounds good" "After our first meeting, I asked myself if a man of your real complexity should suffice as a legacy, a memoir" "and then I thought that Lorenzo has many features so similar to yours and the fact that you suggested so cunningly to Lorenzo the Don Giovanni you know is in part a reflection of your life" "Why thus?" "Would you be happy if I marry him and Don Giovanni becomes a faithful hubby?" "Explain yourself better, if you please" "Your Lorenzo is convinced that in seducing women he has found his destiny" "It is to be in the seventh heaven and I thought, to share the peace of his new love with ..." "Don Giovanni ..." "You are a jealous woman" "You are starting to bore me" "There are not little games, you may assure yourself" "This is the wedding scene written in his own hand." "It was distributed yesterday" "What you want from me, Adriana?" "Annetta." "Annetta is her name, and comes from his Venetian past" "I have the impression that this woman would not like anything known about the love affair that Lorenzo boasted of at that time" "Next, read" "You notice that I have modeled Lorenzo on my personality recording all his conquests, I assure you, with particular care" "You can have a copy this list, if you wish" "Some names can be skipped, they are stories I have heard" "Naturally, we want to avoid Lorenzo knowing" "Son of a bitch." "Even Gertrude, my maid" "You are also there, on that list" "Good morning." "I'm Lorenzo Da Ponte." "Seeking Miss Annetta di Fiorini." "Is she at home?" "Sorry, I do not know." "I have to go see" "Lorenzo what are you doing here?" "I have come to pay you a complimentary visit." "I brought some flowers" "I am promised, as I have told you already." "I can not accept" "Annetta?" "Who is it?" "You don't understand, that is not for you" "Please, come in the room, sir" "Let me introduce myself." "My name is Lorenzo" "Be who you are, Mr. Da Ponte" "Charmed to meet you, Senora di Fiorini." "I had the good fortune to meet your brother an exalted man with a heart of gold" "My brother, may he rest in peace, was a wastrel who squandered at the gaming tables his family heritage" "but I beg you, Mr. Da Ponte." "Be seated." "Adele?" "Place these flowers in a vase" "Excuse the mess, we were just finishing folding sheets" "No, it is I who should apologize for having barged in, without permission" "Let me help you at least in your domestic chores which I interrupted" "I told my aunt that you are writing the libretto for a new Mozart opera" "You must know that we two were delighted with The Marriage of Figaro" "I'm flattered and I fervently hope that this ..." "Please find yourself a new job" "Why have you come here, Lorenzo?" "I thought we had already said all" "But you have not said that we should not see each other" "and even if you had, I would not have complied" "And may we anticipate?" "What is this opera?" "Well, actually it is the story of a libertine an argument which at first sight might seem crude" "but it is treated in a manner that achieves outcomes of higher morality" "It narrates, in fact, the story of a dissolute who imposes the fatuity of his vices on pure and deep feeling women" "Until one day, he finds a woman who causes him to feel love before he decides to change and give his life to this woman who seems to him a redeeming angel" "Forgive me if it sounds indiscreet but is all this part of your outfit?" "You are indiscreet, Mr. Da Ponte." "But no, just to satisfy your curiosity but now I beg you, keep telling me - who is this angel savior?" "A young lady, Aimé, already promised to another his love therefore seems impossible he is desperate but does not give up and her feelings for him are the same but she doubts his sincerity" "in the end she realizes that his love is authentic" "As you can see the story ends happily and in a totally moral way" "I'm not engaged, Lorenzo" "I'm not about to get married" "Annetta, can you still doubt me?" "Why do you not warm to me, Annetta?" "Pardon" "Miss, someone brought this for you" "I do not want to see you anymore!" "I do not want to hear you again!" "You and all your whores!" "Leave this house immediately, get out of my life!" "And don't ever set foot in either again!" "Stanzi" "You worked overnight again" "You promised that you would care for your health" "You can not continue." "Your health is already bad enough" "Do not worry, it's just fatigue" "A good hot coffee and I'll be as good as new" "I'll fix you something, but then you must lie down in bed" "Don Giovanni!" "Don Giovanni!" "You invited me to dinner with you, and I came" "Wolfi?" "Wolfi!" "My dear!" "Slowly, slowly" "It's nothing." "It is only a slight attack." "I'm fine." "I'm fine" "Why not send to the devil this Don Giovanni that is ruining your health?" "What are you saying, Costanza?" "The work is almost complete and besides, was not you who insisted we accept it?" "I do not know." "It was a grave error." "This damn opera is destroying you" "Come, let us not be so dramatic" "I can not stop with the opera incomplete" "We could return the advance." "We can afford it." "and besides, Don Giovanni is a splendid work" "Splendid!" "The adventures of a crazed and vicious wild pig is a wonderful story?" "A lot of crap like the tastes of your friend Da Ponte who is not much better than Don Giovanni" "Maestro Casanova" "Lorenzo has made me understand that it is you who are the true inspiration for our opera" "How exciting to think it is you who is putting music to Don Giovanni" "My words are not simple flattery, this is one of the most important moments of my life" "I thank you very much" "Let me introduce you to our Leporello" "Charmed!" "And our Don Giovanni" "Most charmed!" "Most charmed!" "Young, beautiful" "We are waiting for Dona Elvira who undoubtedly will be here soon" "Is this truly Lorenzo?" "Yes" "The perfume of the theater" "She is here" "Oh, what a beautiful surprise, Sr. Casanova" "You are always so beautiful, Adriana" "Our Lorenzo is really cool" "His ideas are so striking that I often wonder in astonishment ... .. where do you get such inspiration?" "Let's sit in the stalls, so you can attend a sneak preview" "Read here, the conquests of Don Giovanni in Italy, 320" "Pardon this impulse of national pride but why so few ... .. It could easily give the impression that our hero despises the Italian beauties" "Why do not we make it 640?" "In Spain also is mentioned 703 ..." "Gentlemen, we're talking about the greatest ever seducer in the whole world" "It is impossible that at home, his tally is so low and therefore ... increased, and rounded down to a good 1003?" "One thousand and three?" "..." "Thousand three" "Miss, this is the catalog the beauties which my lord has loved it is a catalog kept by me" "Observe, read me." "In Italy, 640," "In Germany, 231," "100 in France, Turkey 91," "But in Spain" "But in Spain already 1003." "Among them are farm girls," "Housekeepers, citizens," "There are Countess, Baroness," "Marquis, princesses," "And there are women of all ranks all types, of all ages." "In Italy, 640," "In Germany, 231," "I certainly don't wish to intrude on what the muses whisper to you but I have discovered that your idea for the end of the opera Don Giovanni is a   reformation, him coming to be married to ... well, the greatest love of his life" "Is it true?" "All nonsense!" "Who told you such nonsense?" "And there are women of all ranks all types, of all ages." "with the blonde, he has a habit ... of praising her kindness," "with the brunette, her constancy, with white, her sweetness." "In winter he chases the plump," "And the slim in summer, the haughty majestic, the haughty majestic, the small one small is always charming," "You are right, who loves only one woman is nothing but a selfish" "To the old conquests, for the pleasure to put them on my list;" "His predominant passion the young beginner," "If she be rich, if ugly, if beautiful," "As long as she wears skirts," "You already know what you do ..." "As long as they wear skirts," "You know what you do ..." "You know what you do ..." "Okay, good, good gentlemen." "Thank you, thanks" "Excuse me just a moment Giacomo." "I'll be right back" "I'm sorry about your father, Wolfgang and my deepest condolences" "Thanks Lorenzo" "No. .. no" "Do not leave me alone" "I loved my father" "He sometimes has been unfair, cruel in his relationship with me." "He forced me to play the piano instead of letting me play with other children" "But I was touched by the gods, a prodigy" "They made me compliments, they applauded me and my father picked up the benefits" "I choked in the world he built around me" "He urged me to save, to earn always more money, more money, more money" "Always for the good of the family" "One day he said if I did not do so, the devil would come to take me" "What do you think?" "It's just as he said" "The devil would have taken me" "I loved him, despite that" "Totally ..." "I loved him and feared him" "I feared his reproaches, his criticisms" "He walked away from me, when he realized that my music was better than his" "He was jealous, understand, jealous of his own son." "Of all the people who loved me he sought to take control of my life." "He said what I should and should not do" "And above all, he hated Costanza." "When I married her, he wrote me a letter in which he said I was indebted to him for all the money he had invested in me." "What do you think?" "That's stinginess" "Sometimes in my thoughts, my dreams ... .. I wanted his death" "Move on, Mozart!" "You are upset and that's enough!" "Only you must overcome this misfortune and there is nothing better than working" "No, I can't continue with Don Giovanni" "My wife is right, it's harming me." "I should abandon it" "But you say?" "But do not you understand?" "If I finish this opera I also lose my soul" "But it is ridiculous." "I pray you come to your senses" "If you feel such an oppressive weight inside you, go see a priest" "And get yourselves a good absolution" "So why do you not give me absolution?" "Hold on." "That's not what I meant" "Are you not perhaps a priest?" "Yes, yes, but long ago ..." "Lorenzo, I beg you" "If you are truly my friend free me from this torment" "Kneel" "I absolve you from your sins." "In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." "Amen" "Amen" "Bravo, bravo" "A magnificent idea, me here" "Now the best you can do is to forget Annetta" "Stop thinking about that woman" "Well." "That depends on you" "Have you decided to dedicate a serenade?" "It is your fault that I am broken-hearted" "What do you mean?" "It's been you who led me to rediscover Annetta" "You are the guilty one" "Oh!" "!" "The Vizier arrives!" " Are you bored, my beauty?" "Yes, my great love" "Without you, time drags into eternity" "My love, I bring you this jewel, as a sign of my love" "You do not know the service this does me" "When a musician falls sick at the last moment is difficult to find a replacement in time" "For me it's an honor to play among so many virtuosos" "Only I don't know if I'll be up to the mark, see?" "No, it's just a little stage fright" "Annetta, I have no student better than you" "You will see that everything will go well" "Once you start to play, fear disappears altogether." "Be calm" "I thank you" "Master Are you sure ..." "What if he does not come?" "Absolutely sure" "Which ring do you prefer?" "This Ah, the biggest" "Yes Okay" "Free at last," "Gentile Zerlina, that dunce" "What do you think, my dear, of what I have done?" "Signor, he is my husband" "Who, him?" "Do you think that an honest man, a gentleman such as I value myself could put up with that lover of gold, could stand for that sweet face, to be mistreated by a vulgar lout" "But, sir, I gave my word to marry him" "That word is worthless." "You are not meant to be a peasant, another fate awaits those entrancing eyes, the mouth so beautiful, those fingers candid and fragrant which I believe to care ... and smell the roses." "Ah ..." "I would not want ..." "What would you not want?" "the end, be deceived." "I know that gentlemen rarely are honest and sincere with women." "That is slander of the common people honesty is painted in the eyes of the nobility therefore lose no time; right now," "I want to marry you." "You!" "Yes, I" "That pavilion is mine!" "we will be alone and there, my treasure" "we will get married." "there we will join hands," "There you will tell me yes." "Look, is not far:" "Let us go, my dear, from here" "I would, and yet would not ... my heart trembles a little ..." "Happy, it is true, it would be but you can still make a game of me" "Come, my adored one!" "Masetto, I'm sorry!" "I will change your luck soon ..." "I can resist no more" "Come, come ...!" "Here we will join hands," "I would and I would not" "There you will tell me yes." "My heart trembles a little" "Let us go, my dear, from here but you can still make a game of me" "Come, my adored one!" "Masetto, I'm sorry!" "I will change your luck soon ..." "I can resist no more" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go, Let's go, my darling!" "to ease the pain ... of an innocent love" "Let's go, Let's go, my darling!" "to ease the pain ... of an innocent love" "So?" "How did it go?" "It went very well And Annetta?" "She played to perfection!" "But I should not say that!" "What did you say?" "After rehearsal she left immediately" "Because of me?" "Don't you understand anything?" "Now you must have patience, and you must take time to reflect in peace" "Meantime why not occupy your mind with something else?" "Perhaps finishing the final scenes of the opera" "I remind you that we open in less than a week" "You will take a chill out here" "Why do not you stay for dinner at our house?" "Lorenzo." "Lorenzo" "Lorenzo." "Lorenzo Da Ponte" "Come and make love to me" "Come on, it's so cold tonight." "I'll warm you." "Then tomorrow Lorenzo, I hope" "I left the door open for you" "Were you so sure that would have come?" "No. .. but I hoped" "and now you are with me" "Good heavens, Lorenzo, you are burning." "Wait" "Don Giovanni has invited to dinner the statue of the commander he had killed in a duel" "Certainly had not thought the commander would have accepted his invitation" "Let's get to the nub" "Repent!" "Change your life, this is your final moment" "No." "No." "I do not repent" "Get away from me" "Repent, heartless one!" "No." "Old fool!" "Repent!" "No!" "Repent!" "No!" "No!" "Are you really convinced, Lorenzo?" "Right?" "Why do you not at least once waive this dull trip to hell and go instead to paradise?" "An Annetta saves his soul" ""The fair price for those who till the end have been slaves of earthly pleasures."" "Let us save your soul!" "Let's say he does not say no." "No" "Don Giovanni assumes his own responsibility" "Otherwise he would be a hypocrite" "That's what you yourself preached - "a moment of earthly life is worth more than all eternity"" "I ..." "I would have said that?" "Well, what matter." "Why give it to the eternal fire?" "Maybe because you will meet me there and want to condemn me" "No, Giacomo" "It is I whom you recognize in Don Giovanni" "If so, his fall would also yours" "Only a part of my life" "The part from which I want to break free" "But, why?" "Why?" "Why her?" "For a loving relationship." "For a lover!" "All my lessons thrown into the sea.!" "Freedom!" "!" "Free ...!" "Maybe you don't approve the fact that Lorenzo and I are in love" "Sorry." "But I react according to my conscience" "Ah ..." "Sir ... for mercy ..." "Do not go out there ..." "The man of stone, the white man ..." "Oh, love, I'm cold, I stagger ...!" "If you could see its face" "If you heard how it sounds" "Ta, ta, ta, ta !" "I don't understand anything," "Ta, ta, ta, ta !" "You're really crazy" "Ah, listen!" "Someone is knocking" "Open" "I'm shaking" "Open, I tell you" "Ah!" "Crazy!" "To resolve this intrigue, I'll go open it myself" "I do not want to see his friend again, hide me again" "Don Giovanni, I have come to dine with you" "You invited me, and I came." "I should never have believed this but I do what I can" "Leporello, start to serve another dinner" "Ah, sir!" "Ah, sir, we are all dead!" "Get going, I tell you!" "Stop!" "Mortal food does not nourish us who feed on food from heaven." "Other matters more serious than these, other aspirations have guided me here." "Speak, then" "I have the tertian fever ... and all my members tremble" "What are you looking for?" "What do you want?" "I will speak, listen:" "I don't have much time" "Speak, speak, I hear you" "I will speak, listen:" "I don't have much time" "Speak, speak, I hear you" "You invited me to dinner, you know your duty." "Answer me:" "Are you going to have dinner with me?" "Come with me!" "You do not have time ... excuse yourself." "Of cowardice I'll never be accused" "Decide!" "I've decided." "You come?" "Say no!" "Say no!" "The heart is strong in my chest, I have no fear, go." "Give me your hand and pledge!" "Here is ..." "Woe is me!" "What a terrible chill!" "Repent, change your life." "This is your final hour!" "No, no, I do not regret, get away from me" "Repent heartless one!" "No, old fool!" "Repent !" "No!" "Repent!" "No!" "Yes!" "No!" "Ah, there is no more time!" "I have a strange fear that takes hold of me ..." "Whence these horrendous whirlwinds of fire?" "Nothing is too much for your faults." "Come, there is still further evil." "Who rips out my soul?" "Who tears at my insides?" "What torture, oh my, what torture!" "To hell!" "What terror!" "What a disfigured face!" "What damned look!" "Nothing is too much for your faults." "Come, there is still further evil." "What torture, oh my, what torture!" "To hell!" "What terror!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "Thank you." "Thank you gentlemen, thank you.Thanks to all" "Gentlemen, Bravo, Bravo my dear Mozart" "A great work." "Bravo!" "Thank you, your Majesty." "Yes, it is a good work but ... .. the question is ... how shall I say ..." "I think it is a meal too heavy for my Viennese subjects" "If the food is so heavy, your majesty, allow them time to digest it." "Right?" "What impertinence, majesty!" "Mozart is finished" "Thanks Mozart." "Thank you for your sensitivity and wisdom" "It is I who thank you, Da Ponte" "It has been worthwhile." "To mix with you and your own demons" "And also mine." "Thanks" "Thanks for coming!" "Congratulations, really special" "Magnificent performance, congratulations Thank you" "Annetta" "Did you like the opera?" "Are you Don Giovanni?" "Lord." "Try to behave more appropriately" "And who are you to tell me how to act?" "This is Lorenzo Da Ponte" "The opera librettist He is unworthy" "I ask why with such impudence, would he be recounting the exploits of a libertine" "I really liked it!" "and the music was beautiful" "W. Amadeus Mozart died three years after the first Viennese performance of Don Giovanni at the age of 35 years" "Lorenzo Da Ponte died in New York, married with children, at the age of 87 years"