A high-ranked but dissolute character invites to dinner the funerary statue of a nobleman he killed in a duel after dishonoring his daughter. Thus the stage is set for the most dreadful of punishments, arguably the central moment in the life of Don Giovanni - one of the most fertile and suggestive myths of Western culture. The celebrated character who would captivate Mozart, Byron, Richard Strauss, and Stravinski, among others, comes down to us through...