Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre (Don Juan, or the Stone Guest's Banquet) is aballet with a libretto byRanieri de' Calzabigi, music byChristoph Willibald von Gluck, and choreography byGasparo Angiolini. The ballet's first performance was inVienna, Austria on Saturday, 17 October 1761, at theTheater am Kärntnertor. Its innovation in thehistory of ballet, coming a year before Gluck's radical reform ofopera seria with hisOrfeo ed Euridice (1762), was its coherent narrative element, though the series of conventionaldivertissement dances in the second act lies within the well-established ballet tradition of anentr'acte effecting a pause in the story-telling. The ballet follows the legend ofDon Juan and his descent intoHell after killing hisinamorata's father in a duel.
The balletDon Juan was based onMolière'sDom Juan ou le Festin de pierre of 1665.[1]
The 19th movement marked "Moderato" was used byMozart in the third act finale of his operaLe nozze di Figaro.[2]
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