(1 of 3 paintings that depict the portuguese singer ‘francisco d’andrade’) (performing the role of ‘don giovanni’ in mozart’s opera)
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| The singer Francisco d’Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart’s opera | |
| Object type | painting |
| Description | One of three paintings by Slevogt that portrait d’Andrade in this role. The painting depicts the scene when Don Giovanni invites the dead Commendatore to dinner (O statua gentilissima), with Leporello hiding behind him. |
| Date | 1912 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
*spanish*
pronounced [doɴˈχwan])
(‘don giovanni’ in italian)
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“legendary fictional libertine”
(“whatever that means…”)
(sounds like fun!)
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(the first written version of the don juan legend was written by the spanish dramatist ‘tirso de molina’)
(nom de plume of ‘gabriel téllez’)
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(his play el burlador de sevilla y convidado de piedra (aka “the trickster of seville and the ‘stone guest’), was set in the ‘1300s’ and published in ‘spain’ around ‘1630’)
(the name “don juan” is a common metaphor for a ‘womanizer’)
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