Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni (1787) is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It tells the famous literary and musical myth of Don Juan, based on El Burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina (1630), and reproduced in Giovanni Bertati's libretto for Gazzaniga's opera Il convitato de pietra (1787). The fact that the score and libretto describe it as a dramma giocoso indicate that the intention was to produce an amusing work, in opera buffa style. The dramatic contents, however, are more akin to opera seria and take on such a dramatic and musical force that at several points it becomes a veritable tragedy. It is, in any case an extraordinary synthesis and one of the greatest and most perfect creations in the history of opera.

Over the years, despite passing styles and fashions, Don Giovanni has never stopped being performed. It has fascinated writers and musicians of all periods, who have produced re-interpretations and variations. The expressive power of this work about a giovane cavaliere estremamente licenzioso -a very licentious young gentleman, as he is described in the libretto- extends far beyond the anecdote set in Seville which inspired the plot and it has lent itself to many diverse and creative stage versions.