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1. What is the full title of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'?
2. Where is the story situated?
3. The opera practically begins with a murder on the stage. Who gets killed?
4. To whom does Leporello 'list' the 'conquests' made by his master (in the aria 'Madamina')?
5. Where has Don Giovanni been 'most successful', if we can trust Leporello's list?
6. One of Don Giovanni's most famous duets is 'La ci darem la mano'. Who is he trying to seduce when he sings those words?
7. True or False: In the course of the play Leporello and Don Giovanni decide to dress up in each other's cloak. The reason Don Giovanni gives for this is that he believes he has a better chance to seduce Donna Elvira's maidservant if he seems to be her social equal.
8. Donna Elvira believes it's the right moment to win back her 'Don Giovanni', but alas they are suddenly surrounded by the villagers who want to kill 'pseudo-Don Giovanni'. Leporello escapes by throwing off his Don Giovanni cloak. A little later he finds his master back. Don Giovanni has asked somebody for dinner: the statue of the Commander, Donna Anna's father! During the meal some music will be performed. To tease his audience Mozart includes an air from one of his other operas. Which one?
9. Donna Elvira makes a last attempt to get her Don Giovanni back. She says she has come to save him and that she is ready to forgive Don Giovanni everything if he but gives up his womanizing. Don Giovanni must heartily laugh about that suggestion. Furious, she leaves. Then she screams. And the next moment she is back and runs off the stage in the other direction. Who or what has she seen?
10. How does Don Giovanni finally get his punishment?
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