Also sprach Zarathustra

DEPTH. HEIGHT. DRAMA. Whether Don Giovanni can be considered a superhuman figure is obviously debatable, though there were perhaps some among the women who fell victim to his seduction who thought of him that way. In Mozart’s opera, however, his fate is one of ruin, and he ends up in the depths of a sulfurous hell, where he is surrounded not only by eternal fire but also by extremely somber D-minor harmonies.