from Act I, Scene II of the Italian opera
Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Role: Leporello, servant of Don Giovanni
Voice Part: bass Fach: lyric bass
Setting: A street at daybreak
Synopsis: After Donna Elvira confronts Don Giovanni, who had betrayed her, Leporello tells her that she should forget him, and then produces a book of the Don's feminine conquests : 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1003 in Spain.