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  • MediaDB / «The Night of Don Juan" Hans-Josef Ortheil: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2010 / The novel is based on real events: in the autumn of 1787 in Prague, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met. The great composer works on Don Giovanni, an opera of operas, but he is dissatisfied: the librettist made the main character too vulgar, the singers are quarreling, and Mozart cannot finish the score. Casanova sets himself the goal: to improve the opera, even if this means entangling all the characters in a network of intrigue. Gradually, the destinies of the novel's heroes intertwine with the destinies of the opera characters, and magical music reigns over everything.…