Don Giovanni goes about seducing women, as enumerated by his sidekick Leporello when he sings an aria listing his master's conquests country by country, ending with, "and in Spain, mille e tres (a thousand and three)".
In the opening act, the father of one of his victims challenges him to a duel, and Don Giovanni reluctantly agrees, leaving the father (Il Commendatore) dead. In the second act, when he and Leporello take refuge in the tomb of Il Commendatore, he foolishly invites the statue of the dead man to dinner.
At the end of act two. the statue of Il Commendatore appears at Don Juan's dinner party and invites him to dinner with him, and the last we see of Don Juan is him falling into a burning pit.
Mozart styled the opera as an opera buffa (comic opera) and it contains both comedy and tragedy, along with some pretty expert singing.
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