Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Opera is a form of musical art in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and music in a theatrical setting involving stories of extreme human situations or stories regarding mythology. One of the most interesting challenges in an operatic composition, is the challenge behind composing music for all the individual characters in the opera and the job the composer has of distinguishing between the different characters through their music. A perfect example of an opera that was executed in a great way amidst these challenges is Mozart's “Don Giovanni.” “Don Giovanni” is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. “Don Giovanni” is in opera divided into two acts about a young, arrogant womanizer named Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is the main character of the opera who takes advantage of any opportunity he can in order to seduce a girl, any girl for that matter. When the opera begins, a masked, Don Giovanni is at the Commendatore’s house with his eye’s set a young girl named Donna Anna who is daughter of the Commendatore name Don Pedro and is betrothed to Don Ottavio. As Donna Anna is attempting to figure out who the masked figure is, she cries for help and her father comes to her aid and challenges Don Giovanni to a duel in which Don Giovanni kills the Commendatore. Don Giovanni disappears and Donna Anna makes Don Ottavio promise to get revenge for her father. As the opera progresses other character are introduced into the story as they are trying to figure out who the masked murder of the Commendatore is. As the try to figure out who the masked person was, Don Giovanni, again finds any opportunity to seduce a girl and finally, Donna Anna and the other characters realize that it was Don Giovanni all along who was the killer. In a scene while Leporello and Don Giovanni are in a graveyard, they encounter the Commendatore’s statue with an inscription that read “Dell'empio che mi trasse al passo estremo qui attendo la vendetta” which means “Here am I waiting for revenge against the scoundrel who killed me.” Don Giovanni makes a mockery of the statue and later on in the opera, the statue appears at Don Giovanni’s chamber offering Don Giovanni to repent which Don Giovanni refuses and ends up sinking into the earth and dying while the rest of the character move on with their respective lives. The main issues in “Don Giovanni” are that of Don Giovanni being a womanizer and the fact that he wants and tries to seduce all of the woman that he encounters throughout the opera. There are several times in the opera in which this shows for example in a more of an comedic scene where Leporello, Don Giovanni’s servant, tells Donna Elvira, an ex-lover of Don Giovanni whom he disappeared of all of Don Giovanni’s conquests, “His conquests include 640 women and girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, but in Spain, 1,003.” This alone shows the audience that to Don Giovanni, women are nothing but sexual objects of desire and that he does not care for monogamy or a serious relationship with a women because he has seduced so many all over Europe. Another main issue throughout the opera is the issue of family relations and Donna Anna and Don Ottavio seeking revenge for the murder of Don Anna’s father. Donna Anna not only feels betrayed by Don Giovanni for fooling her into thinking he would help her “find” the masked murder but also for killing her father. Throughout this opera Don Giovanni does not give any importance to morals or ethics and seem’s to be quite selfish, arrogant, and self-centered only thinking about himself. Not once does he put Leporello or Donna Elvira or Donna Elvira into consideration and how they feel but only about his own selfish wants and needs. He does not care about anyone or anything but his main purpose in life is to get whatever he desires no matter what the cost which in the end comes back to bite him back out of bad karma. In the end because of killing Donna Anna’s father, the Commendarte, and not seeking repentance, Don Giovanni pays the ultimate price of his life when the state of the Commendarte’s grave and Don Giovanni get sucked into the earth. Don Giovanni never learns his lesson throughout the play and remains a selfish, arrogant, self-centered person while everyone also moves on with their lives after his death. If I were to have directed this opera, I would have made the costumes of the character a bit more extreme in regards to their social class so that it were more obvious where each character stood in regards to society. For example Don Giovanni, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Don Ottavio would be dressed more elegantly in a way that they looked like royalty while Leporello and all the other maids and servants where dressed in more basic clothing letting it known to the audience that those were the servants. Also, for the stage set up I would make the courtyards, the rooms of Donna Anna and Don Giovanni, and the ballroom more “upscale” and fancy while making the more public places like the garden and the public square outside of Don Giovanni’s palace more simple. And for the scene in the graveyard, I would have added the graves and statues a bit spread out, along with fog or smoke to make the scene more ominous and have most of the other graves look older with weeds near them and some of them either broken or crooked while making the prominent grave be the grave and statue of the Commendarte as the focal point of the scene since it had played a key role in the opera especially in one of the final scenes where it shows up outside Don Giovanni’s chambers and they both sink into the ground. The other thing I would direct and put a lot of emphasis on would be the way the characters/singers performed on the stage. I would make the characters act and sing a bit more natural in that scenes that were a bit more serious so that their gestures were not so over dramatic. As for the scenes that displayed some kind of humor like the scene of Leporello singing about all of Don Giovanni’s conquests to be a bit more playful to convey the humor and comedy behind what was being sung in order to make light of the situation that Don Giovanni just used woman no matter who they were or where they were from.