The focus of my concert report was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera buffa, Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is a classical opera which seems to be embossed by legend as much as the "real" philandering character of Don Giovanni himself. The first performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni was performed in Vienna on May 7, 1788. Mozart wrote the score and his librettist of that period, Lorenzo da Ponte, wrote the libretto. Pasquale Bondini (b. 1731), an operatic bass singer with a company of his own, commissioned this opera from Mozart. It was supposed to be prepared for October 14, 1787 in time for the visit of Archduchess Marie Theresia on her way to be married to Prince Anton Clemens of Saxony. Mozart arrived in Vienna on the fourth of that year, and even he couldn't produce the opera in an impossible ten days. So, even though Mozart couldn't produce it then, Joseph II ordered the eventual production and thus it was completed. Mozart was famed to have written the six minute long overture the night before the first performance and da Ponte apparently made last minute changes to the libretto the night before so as to avoid censorship of unsuitable material by the respectable authorities.