Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte Based On a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Music Center Pavilion Season 1965 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Production Paul Hager Designer Oliver Smith Costume Designer(s) Wolfram Skalicki Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Choreographer Ghita Hager Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Leporello, servant of Don Giovanni Heinz Blankenburg(11/8) Ugo Trama(11/23) Donna Anna, the Commendatore's daughter Leontyne Price(11/8) Pilar Lorengar(11/23) Don Giovanni Thomas Stewart Don Pedro, the Commendatore Thomas O'Leary Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fiancé Richard Lewis Donna Elvira, a former love of Don Giovanni Lucine Amara Zerlina, a peasant girl Jolanda Meneguzzer Masetto, her fiancé John West Show Dates Mon, Nov 8 1965, 8pm Tue, Nov 23 1965, 8pm Time and Place Seville, in the middle of the seventeenth century Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- Courtyard of the Commendatore's palace Scene 2 -- A city square Scene 3 -- Outside Don Giovanni's palace Scene 4 -- Ballroom in Don Giovanni's palace Act II, Scene 1 -- A city square Scene 2 -- Courtyard of the Commendatore's palace Scene 3 -- A cemetery Scene 4 -- A room in Don Giovanni's palace Notes Corps de Ballet