The opera Mozart considered to be one of his opera buffa, or lighter more comic operas and there are many scenes during the opera that are indeed comic especially Leporello, Don Giovani’s servant.īy the time the opera reaches this last scene, Don Giovanni is about to meet a nasty end. Don Giovanni, the protagonist, is a character based on the legendary Don Juan scoundrel, murderer and womaniser. The video above is to the final scene in the second and last act of the opera. 527 by Mozartįor me, this is one of the most outstanding operas Mozart composed. A fast Rondo finale finishes the sonata with a feeling of great triumph.Ģ. In the second movement, Beethoven produces one of the most lyrical and memorable melodies from his whole oeuvre. A turbulent and highly operatic allegro springs from the introduction and moves the music towards a more familiar sonata-form movement that is interrupted later by an echo of the opening.īeethoven stretches the movement into all manner of highly innovative directions to arrive back at the opening for one last time before a rapid descending scale concludes the first movement.

In this opening Adagio introduction, Beethoven effortlessly captures the energy of the entire movement. There is a very real sense of something about to take place from the first chord that the pianist plays. The drama begins immediately with this relatively early period Beethoven sonata for piano in C minor. Some may be familiar, others perhaps less so, but I hope to leave you in no doubt about the dramatic intentions of these composers and the lasting effect of these pieces of music.

In this article, I am going to take a whistle-stop tour of some of the most dramatic classical ever composed.

Intense opera music used in movies