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a bunch of don giovanni related doodles drawn while listening to decanonized podcast

#don giovanni #leporello #donna anna #zerlina #donna elvira #don ottavio

it's leporello's birthday this sunday (according to the gazzaniga don giovanni opera, which was what mozart took inspiration from, leporello was born on easter) and also an essay about leporello literally got me into the prestigious university program i'll be going to. i kinda owe him something, so i remade the ruler of everything leporello post with the full song.

yes, the meme is dead. no i don't care. happy birthday to a silly little servant who maybe isn't cared about by many but whom i care about very deeply.

sources for all the footage, in the order they first appear:

#i completely forgot #Happy belated birthday Leporello #leporello

wromwood

Here are some more thoughts on the Metropolitan Opera’s 2000 production of Don Giovanni:

This production’s Don Giovanni and Leporello have physical interactions that are different from those of other productions that I’ve seen. The way they tease, comfort, and play with each other are rather… close at times.

Anyway.

Donna Elvira makes this fun face when she hears how many people Don Giovanni has slept with in Spain.

I’ve realized I love productions that do fun things with Leporello’s book of Don Giovanni’s conquests.

Finally, when Don Giovanni is dragged to hell, he clings desperately to Leporello. In doing this, he is both fighting to escape punishment for his crimes while also dragging his servant down with him.

And the latter even succeeds!

… But we need Leporello for the last song, so he comes back. And he does so in a way that makes it look like Hell just. rejects him.

He literally raises from the floor like that.

#don giovanni #opera tag

writing my first Don Giovanni fic

#rose speaks

lovetechnique

mozart thee stallion

amadeus (1984) // kitty kat

#Best thing I've ever watched #amadeus 1984

infinitelytheheartexpands

posting here without comment

#sesame street #don giovanni #beutiful

the-tenth-arcanum

in honour of the birthday of don giovanni the opera (29th october 1787),

what's your favourite character from don giovanni?

don giovanni

leporello

donn'anna

don ottavio (?)

donna elvira

zerlina

masetto

il commendatore (??)

Voting ended onOct 31, 2025

#Blog title says it all #opera tag

strawberry-crocodile

personally? i enjoy being a fan of characters who have done Wrong. i like when a character is not a perfect victim, has hurt people, has transgressed, has done bad things. sometimes its nice to feel the sting yknow? and to recognize that a character is not a flawless perfect victim, but is deserving of understanding and compassion anyway. a lot of people in fandom refuse to let go of moral absolutism and its... rough.

#I love The Don #don giovanni

leporellian

wot eva

#don giovanni #leporello

leporellian

its balcony scene bitch

#don giovanni #leporello #donna elvira

leporellian

okay okay

#don giovanni #leporello #donna elvira

leporellian

bunch of leporellos modeled from various production shots over the years

#leporello #don giovanni

more Leporello icons

#don giovanni #leporello #opera tag #credit if you use

leporello icons

#leporello #don giovanni #credit if you use #opera tag

leporellian

see to me leporello and elvira are like sold as a set. you cannot have one without the other they are two halves of a greater whole they are narrative foils but more than that they unionize over the course of the opera and that’s very special.

ANYWAY i’m thinking a lot about how they really are the two societal outsiders of the opera. first off there’s their interactions with their respective classes, it’s their attachment to the don that sort of singles them out (elvira does not entirely fit in with the nobles anna and ottavio due to her sullied reputation- see how the don kind of weaponizes this against her also- while leporello is distrusted by zerlina and masetto because of his employment with the don, which the don again seems to capitalize on when he keeps blaming leporello for things he’s done against those two). you can actually even see this in the general key placement of all the characters. the nobles tend to stick around the a-c keys for the most part while elvira is almost always at the e flat key separate from them, and while leporello does use the g major key associated with the peasants he dips into the lower keys much more often than them. elvira is also introduced on the e flat key and leporello on the f key and maybe this gets into like, #lunatic territory but i don’t think it’s coincidental they’re only a step away from one another.

and then of course there’s the religious aspect, what with the don calling leporello an antisemitic slur (which i can’t stress enough would have been a deliberate choice on daponte’s end given daponte’s personal background) and the implications behind elvira fleeing burgos (like one of the most catholic cities in spain) and deliberately not going back there either at the end (remember she doesn’t go to a convent it’s a mistranslation LOL). i think this slots neatly into them having the hardest moral conflicts in the opera too because while nobody here is having a good time i think everyone else can rationalize their relationship to the don as a good vs evil thing where leporello and elvira . can’t really. even as much as elvira tries to

and THEN there’s the gender aspect also… elvira is engendered as more masculine than the other women. i think a lot about how anna goes to elvira for comfort and protection in the act 1 finale rather than ottavio that shit is crazy!!!!! elvira is also the one that is the actual leader of the very loose Band Of People The Don Has Fucked With (again in contrast to ottavio- the bit where he’s like “ok NOW we know that the don murdered the commendatore.” when everyone else has figured that out, anna has left the stage, and nobody else is paying attention to him is one of the funniest lines in the show imo) and she positions herself masculinely as sort of a defense against her own love for the don, ie the “i’m going to rip his heart out” thing. i joke a lot about anna being just a female verdi baritone that doesn’t know she’s in a mozart opera but i really do think in another life elvira would’ve been a tenor. then there’s leporello who i mean look at him but anyway besides the obvious fact he has the weird “bordering on nagging wife/mother in re: the don” thing there’s points in the music where his compositional qualities are much more in line with how mozart writes female characters (you can see it in the catalogue aria best) and he is also really submissive in that even when he’s the one setting the melody of a piece his lower voice makes him sort of sink below other characters.

and then at the end they just kind of both have to resign themselves to being societal outsiders with only each other getting it. AUGHHHH

anyway all that in mind also mozart keeps pairing them up in various ways because i know he knows the compare and contrast between these two is crazy i may be posting like a goddamn lunatic rn but i’m just observing THAT guy so maybe take it up with him . or moliere maybe because as SOOON as that guy invented the concept of donna elvira he was like I gotta ideologically link her with that fuck ass servant

#don giovanni #donna elvira #leporello

leporellian

Have you seen this new rock musical based on Don G? I'm pretty sure they just reorchestrated all the music in a cheesy rock opera style with English lyrics. I think they also cut Zerlina and Masetto?

There's sections from the libretto on the website and it sounds, uhh, not promising, considering it's described as "[rejecting] the moralistic, condemnatory attitude towards Giovanni that we inherited from the 19th century, and which still pervades the majority of stage productions in regular opera houses today".

www.dgrocks.com/

oh i HAVE heard of this. we're so so doomed

like ignoring the 'maybe we shouldn't be 'against condemning' the character who's entire personality is Being A Sadistic Manipulative Rapist. the nineteenth century was largely where we GOT the 'don giovanni is a rebel' talk, because eta hoffmann at the very tail end of the 18th century always fucked things up for everyone.

also why cut zerlina and maestro. you hate teenagers ? you hate whimsy ?

#I still have the cd i orderd from the offical website #I used to have that on loop #Now its just gathering dust #rose speaks

deathbypickles

can we normalize the term public domain darling for artfight. like no i dont "own" the character but my house my rules type of shit.

#Yes

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