Design for Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', 1875. Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer, first performed in Prague in 1787. The libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) was based on Moliere's play of 1665 'Don Juan, ou le festin de Pierre' ('Don Juan, or the Stone Banquet'). Don Giovanni's Banqueting Hall from a design of 1875.