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with a little help, amazingly enough, from Giacomo Casanova What's so amazing about this? Casanova was a famous author (and nobody knew the Histoire de ma vie at that time), and he also happened to live in Bohemia at the time. And Casanova was not a Don Juan. it is well-known that Don Giovanni was a libertine, who seduced over 1,000 females in SpainDon Juan/Don Giovanni is a completely fictitious person. For example, Giovanni's servant, Leporello, explained to Donna Elvira, one of Giovanni's young spurned conquests, that Giovanni's "... outstanding passion is the youthful beginner....provided she wears a skirt." Let's quote this fragment from the end of Leporello's famous catalogue aria a bit more fully: Delle vecchie fa conquista The whole point of Leporello's aria is that Giovanni doesn't care if a woman is young or old, rich or poor, ugly or beautiful: he just wants to seduce as many as possible -- and that's why he prefers a "giovin principiante" ("young debutante"): they are easier to seduce than more experienced women. (and that "provided she wears a skirt" has nothing to do with age at all: it's in the context of the question of wealth and beauty). Poor little girl...pretty little face! Poverina means just "poor woman"; like most English speaking people, you don't seem to understand how diminutives work. And there is absolutely no "little" in muso bello My assumption is that it is very difficult to find nymphet opera singers18th century opera casting was different from the casting of a Hollywood movie: what mattered was your voice, nothing else. Famous parts, male and female, were written expressly for castrati. And this is the major theme of Don Giovanni: Шаги командора |