Don Juan (ballet)

Christoph Willibald von Gluck by Joseph Duplessis (1775)

Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre (Don Juan, or the Stone Guest's Banquet) is a ballet with a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and choreography by Gasparo Angiolini. The ballet's first performance was in Vienna, Austria on Saturday, 17 October 1761, at the Theater am Kärntnertor. Its innovation in the history of ballet, coming a year before Gluck's radical reform of opera seria with his Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), was its coherent narrative element, though the series of conventional divertissement dances in the second act lies within the well-established ballet tradition of an entr'acte effecting a pause in the story-telling. The ballet follows the legend of Don Juan and his descent into Hell after killing his inamorata's father in a duel.

## Background[edit]

The ballet Don Juan was based on Molière's Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre of 1665.[1]

The 19th movement marked "Moderato" was used by Mozart in the third act finale of his opera Le nozze di Figaro. [2]

## References[edit]

### Footnotes[edit]

1. ^ Kirstein 1984, p. 118
2. ^ Charles Osborne: The Complete Operas of Mozart p.251

### Bibliography[edit]

* Kirstein, Lincoln (1984), Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., ASIN B0035YMWUY, ISBN 0-486-24631-0

## External links[edit]

* Original edition of the libretto in Bayerischen Staatsbibliotek

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Operas|

* Demofoonte (1743)
* Ipermestra (1744)
* La caduta de' giganti (1746)
* Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (1747)
* La Semiramide riconosciuta (1748)
* Ezio (1750)
* La clemenza di Tito (1752)
* Le cinesi (1754)
* La danza (1755)
* L'innocenza giustificata (1755)
* Antigono (1756)
* Il re pastore (1756)
* La fausse esclave (1758)
* La Cythère assiégée (1759)
* L'île de Merlin (1758)
* Le diable à quatre (1759)
* L'arbre enchanté (1759)
* L'ivrogne corrigé (1760)
* Tetide (1760)
* Le cadi dupé (1761)
* Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
* Il trionfo di Clelia (1763)
* La rencontre imprévue (1764)
* Il Parnaso confuso (1765)
* Telemaco (1765)
* La corona (1765, unperformed in his lifetime)
* Alceste (1767)
* Le feste d'Apollo (1769)
* Paride ed Elena (1770)
* Iphigénie en Aulide (1774)
* Armide (1777)
* Iphigénie en Tauride (1779)
* Écho et Narcisse (1779)

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* Don Juan

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* Alfred Wotquenne
* Chaconne

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Films|

* Don Juan Tenorio (1898)
* Don Juan (1913)
* Don Juan (1922)
* The Lucky Horseshoe (1925)
* Don Juan (1926)
* The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
* Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
* The Adventures of Mandrin (1952)
* Crossed Swords (1954)
* Don Juan (1955)
* Don Juan (1956)
* The Devil's Eye (1960)
* Don Juan in Sicily (1967)
* Don Juan (1969)
* Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)
* Don Juan (1974)
* Don Giovanni (1979)
* Little Tragedies (1979)
* Don Juan in Hell (1995)
* Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
* "El Toro Relajo"
* "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"
* Don Juan (1998)
* Broken Flowers (2005)
* Don Jon (2013)

Plays|

* The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630)
* Dom Juan (1665)
* The Libertine (1676)
* The Stone Guest (1830)
* Don Juan Tenorio (1844)
* Don Juan (1862)
* Man and Superman (1905)
* Don Juan (1959)
* Don Juan in Soho (2006)
* A Free Man of Color (2010)

Operas|

* L'empio punito (1669)
* La pravità castigata  (1730)
* Don Giovanni (1787)
* "Là ci darem la mano "
* "Madamina, il catalogo è questo"
* Discography
* Don Giovanni Tenorio (1787)
* Réminiscences de Don Juan (1841)
* The Stone Guest (1872)
* Margarita la tornera (1909)
* Flammen (1932)

Other music|

* Don Juan (ballet, 1761)
* Don Juan (tone poem, 1888)
* Don Juan Triumphant (fictional, 1910)
* John Gavanti (album, 1980)
* Don Giovanni (album, 1986)
* Don Juan (musical, 2003)
* "Don Juan" (song, 2012)

Poems|

* Don Juan (1821)
* El estudiante de Salamanca (1840)

Novels|

* Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1941)
* Blue of Noon (1957)
* Mary and the Giant (1987)

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