Don Juan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Don Juan, credited to Lorenzo Da Ponte, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Don Juan by Lorenzo Da Ponte. (Translated by Unknown.) Read in English LibriVox volunteers. Don Juan (Spanish), Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine. Although the various iterations of the Don Juan myth show some variation, the basic story remains the same. Don Juan is portrayed as a wealthy, seductive libertine who devotes his life to seducing women, taking great pride in his ability to seduce women of all ages and stations in life. Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, is arguably the best-known version. First performed in Prague in 1787, it inspired works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw, and Albert Camus. Here, Librivox volunteers read an English translation of da Ponte's libretto. Dramatis Personae: Don Juan: Beth Thomas Donna Anna: Availle Don Octavio: ToddHW Don Pedro: alanmapstone Donna Elvira: Elizabeth Klett Leperello: Larry Wilson Zerlina: Kristin Gjerløw Masetto: John Burlinson Chorus woman: rotgold Chorus woman: KHand Stage Directions & Editor: MaryAnnS

Recording facts

• Recording title: Don Juan
• Author credits: Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:08:43

Catalogue topics

• opera
• don giovanni
• libretto
• don juan

Track guide

1. 00 - Argument and Dramatis Personae — 5:24
2. 01 - Act 1 — 36:55
3. 02 - Act 2 — 26:24

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