* Don Alfonso, character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte

Salieri's Chimney Sweep and Mozart's work for the same company in 1782, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) would be the only two major successes to emerge from the German singspiel experiment, and only Mozart's opera would survive on the stage beyond the close of the 18th century.

* Despina, a character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera " Apollo et Hyacinthus " was performed by males only, although the libretto differed from the original text of Ovidius to reduce homosexual relations among Apollon, Hyacinthus, and Zephyrus.

* 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

But Mozart's contribution to opera seria was more mixed ; by his time it was dying away, and in spite of such fine works as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito, he would not succeed in bringing the art form back to life again.

Mozart's Singspiele, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1782 ) and Die Zauberflöte ( 1791 ) were an important breakthrough in achieving international recognition for German opera.

* 1766 – Nancy Storace, the first soprano to sing Susanna in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro ( d. 1817 )

* 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

* October 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni ( libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ) premieres in the Estates Theatre in Prague.

* January 26 – Mozart's opera " Cosi Fan Tutte " premiered in Vienna.

* May 1 – Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna.

Mozart's participation increased with his contributions to the 1790 collaborative opera Der Stein der Weisen ( The Philosopher's Stone ), including the duet (" Nun liebes Weibchen ", K. 625 / 592a ) and perhaps other passages.

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

Mozart's opera emerged as its outstanding original success.

Mozart also made a strong impression on the manager of the theater, Count Franz Xaver Rosenberg-Orsini, when in the home of Mozart's friend and patroness Maria Wilhelmine Thun the Count heard him play excerpts from his opera Idomeneo, premiered with great success the previous year in Munich.

Mozart's opera includes a Westernized version of Turkish music, based very loosely on the Turkish Janissary band music that he had employed in earlier work.

Although the opera greatly raised Mozart's standing with the public as a composer, it did not make him rich: he was paid a flat fee of 100 Imperial ducats ( about 450 florins ) for his work, and made no profits from the many subsequent performances.

The complexity of Mozart's work, noted early on by Goethe, also plays a role in a well-known tale about the opera.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

In between the bass and the tenor is the baritone, which also varies in weight from say, Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte to Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos ; the actual designation " baritone " was not used until the mid-19th century.

Others include Frédéric Chopin's Variations on " Là ci darem la mano " from Don Giovanni ( 1827 ); Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart ( 1914 ), based on the variation theme in the piano sonata K. 331 ; Fernando Sor's Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart ( 1821 ); and Mikhail Glinka's Variations on a Theme from Mozart's Opera Die Zauberflöte in E ♭ major ( 1822 ).

The premieres of Mozart's operas The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute are each the setting for key scenes of the play.

( A well-known basso buffo role is Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni ).

Some examples might be " Music during World War I ," " Medieval and Renaissance instrumental music ," " Music and Process ," " Mozart's Don Giovanni.

He was a famous Don Giovanni in Mozart's eponymous opera as well as being a Bellini and Donizetti specialist.

Back then, baritones rather than high basses normally sang Don Giovanni – arguably Mozart's greatest male operatic creation.

It is also discussed in an early portion of the book that focuses on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

The music is similar to Là ci darem la mano, Don Giovanni's and Zerlina's duet in Act 1, Scene 2, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

In 1979 Losey filmed Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, shot in Villa La Rotonda and the Veneto region of Italy: this film was nominated for several César Awards in 1980 including Best Director.

As a small girl she travelled with her family to London, New York ( where her father, mother, brother and sister gave the first performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte ) and Mexico.

Kinderman distinguishes several forms of " parody ", pointing out several examples which have no special structural significance and which were composed in the earlier period, such as the humorous parody of the aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni ( Var.

A reference to Leporello's aria in the beginning of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

* Score of Mozart's aria " Notte e giorno faticar " from Don Giovanni.

Such roles include Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Zerlina in his Don Giovanni.

Further performances in New York included four appearances as Valentine ( a role she also performed on tour in Louisville, Albany, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston ), three as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, three as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, one more as Gilda, one as Desdemona, one as Elsa, as well as a single appearance as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.

* Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni

Don Juan in Mozart | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, a painting by Max Slevogt

Don Juan in Mozart | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, a painting by Max Slevogt

* 1843: Søren Kierkegaard's Either / or in which he discusses Mozart's musical interpretation of Don Giovanni, and includes another text which develops a similar character called Johannes (" Diary of a seducer ").

The company, retaining the title " Sadler's Wells Opera ", opened at the Coliseum on 21 August 1968, with a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, directed by Sir John Gielgud.

There are examples of the revival of the harpsichord for this purpose as early as the 1890s ( e. g. by Hans Richter for a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the London Royal Opera House, the instrument being supplied by Arnold Dolmetsch ), but it was not until the 1950s that the 18th-century method was consistently observed once more.