Don Juan (disambiguation)
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Don Juan
is a legendary fictional libertine.
Don Juan may also refer to:
Don Juan
Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630...
is a legendary fictional libertine.
Don Juan may also refer to:
- Juan Carlos I of SpainJuan Carlos I of SpainJuan Carlos I |Italy]]) is the reigning King of Spain.On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated king according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. Spain had no monarch for 38 years in 1969 when Franco named Juan Carlos as the...
(born 1938), king and head of state of Spain - Don Juan, another name for a Pickup artistPickup artistPickup artist describes a man who considers himself to be skilled, or who tries to be skilled at meeting, attracting, and seducing women.The use of pickup in this context, slang for making a casual acquaintance with a stranger in anticipation of sexual relations, dates from at least the World War,...
- Don Juan Manuel, Castilian writer
- John of Austria (1547–1578), Don Juan de Austria, European admiral and general
- John of Austria the YoungerJohn of Austria the YoungerJohn of Austria was a Spanish general and political figure. He was the only natural son of Philip IV of Spain to be acknowledged by the King and trained for military command and political administration...
(1629–1679), Don Juan de Austria the Younger, Prime Minister of Spain from 1677 to 1679 - Juan de Borbón, Count of BarcelonaJuan de Borbón, Count of BarcelonaThe Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona , was the third surviving son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the monarch replaced by the Second Spanish Republic,...
, Don Juan de Borbón, Count of Barcelona, Pretender to the Crown - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de BorbónJuan Valentín Urdangarín y de BorbónDon Juan Valentín de Todos los Santos Urdangarín y de Borbón , in Basque: Joan Balentín Urdangarin de Borbon, is the eldest son of the Duchess and Duke of Palma de Mallorca, Infanta Cristina of Spain and Iñaki Urdangarín. Juan is eighth in the line of succession to the Spanish Throne, after his...
(born 1999), Don Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, great-grandson of the above - Don Juan MatusDon Juan MatusDon Juan Matus is a major figure in the series of books on Nagual 'Sorcery' by Carlos Castaneda.Matus is described as a Yaqui Indian to whom Castaneda was first introduced at a bus depot in Yuma, Arizona in the early 1960s. He turns out to be a 'Man of Knowledge' who imparts much of his wisdom and...
, medicine man from Sonora, Mexico (featured in books by Carlos Castaneda) - Don "Magic" Juan, American rapper
- Don Juan, Dominican RepublicDon Juan, Dominican RepublicDon Juan is a town in the Monte Plata province of the Dominican Republic.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...
, a town - Don Juan PondDon Juan PondDon Juan Pond, also called Lake Don Juan, is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the west end of Wright Valley , Victoria Land, Antarctica, west from Lake Vanda. It is wedged between the Asgard Range in the south and the Dais in the north. On the west end there is a small tributary and a...
- a high salinity frost-free lake in Antarctica.
- Any of the many works of art, music, and literature about or inspired by Don Juan:
- 'Don GiovanniDon GiovanniDon Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
, a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Réminiscences de Don JuanRéminiscences de Don JuanRéminiscences de Don Juan is an opera fantasy for piano by Franz Liszt on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni. It is extremely technically demanding. For this reason, and perhaps also because of its length and dramatic intensity, it does not appear in concert programmes as often as Liszt's lighter...
, operatic fantasy by Franz Liszt - Don Juan (Strauss)Don Juan (Strauss)Don Juan, Op. 20 is a tone poem for large orchestra by the German composer Richard Strauss, written in 1888. The composer conducted its premiere on 11 November 1889 with the orchestra of the Weimar Opera, where he served as Court Kapellmeister....
, a tone poem by Richard Strauss - Don Juan TenorioDon Juan TenorioDon Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes , is a play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla. It is the more romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the myth of Don Juan...
, a 1844 play by José Zorilla - El estudiante de SalamancaEl estudiante de SalamancaThe Student of Salamanca is a work by Spanish Romantic poet José de Espronceda. It was published in fragments beginning in 1837; the complete poem was published in 1840 in the volume Poesías. Parts of it are poetry, other parts drama...
, poem by José de Espronceda - Dom JuanDom JuanDom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a French play by Molière, based on the legend of Don Juan. Molière's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterparts to the Spanish Don Juan and Catalinón, characters who would later become familiar to opera goers as Don Giovanni and Leporello...
, a 1665 play by Molière - Don Juan (Byron)Don Juan (Byron)Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire"...
, narrative poem by Lord Byron - Don Juan (1913 film)Don Juan (1913 film)Don Juan is a 1913 Dutch silent drama film directed by Léon Boedels.-Cast:*Willem van der Veer ... Don Juan*Caroline van Dommelen *Tilly Lus *Constant van Kerckhoven Jr....
, a 1913 Dutch film - Don Juan (1926 film)Don Juan (1926 film)Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue...
, 1926 Vitaphone film starring John Barrymore - Adventures of Don JuanAdventures of Don JuanAdventures of Don Juan, known in the United Kingdom as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 adventure Technicolor romance film made by Warner Bros...
, 1948 film starring Errol Flynn; Flynn also played Don Juan in an episode of The Errol Flynn Theatre - Don Juan (1956 film), a 1956 comedy film directed by John BerryJohn BerrySir John Berry was an English naval officer of the Royal Navy, and was in 1675 the captain of the annual convoy to Newfoundland that took place during the years of the colony's founding....
, starring FernandelFernandelFernand Joseph Désiré Contandin , better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues...
, Carmen SevillaCarmen SevillaCarmen Sevilla is a popular Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter. She made her film debut in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla. Other roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza, Buscando a Mónica and the 1956 French film Don Juan.She played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings...
, and Fernando ReyFernando ReyFernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States... - Don Juan (1998 film)Don Juan (1998 film)Don Juan is a 1998 film directed and written by Jacques Weber, starring Penélope Cruz and Emmanuelle Béart. The screenplay was based on the play Dom Juan by Molière. The film takes place in a mental hospital.-Awards and nominations:...
, a 1998 film directed and written by Jacques Weber - Don Juan DeMarcoDon Juan DeMarcoDon Juan DeMarco is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Johnny Depp as John Arnold DeMarco, a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and domino mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Marlon Brando's character, Dr. Jack...
, a 1995 film starring Johnny Depp - "Don Juan in Hell", an episode of FrasierFrasierFrasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
- Don Juan in Hell, excerpt of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman first performed on stage in 1951 by Agnes Moorehead, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
- "Don Juan", a song by Pet Shop Boys from the album AlternativeAlternative (album)Alternative is the ninth album by UK electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1995.Alternative is a 2-disc set, consisting of 30 B-sides in chronological order...
- Don Juan TriumphantDon Juan TriumphantDon Juan Triumphant is the name of a fictional piece of music written by the title character in the novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the musical adaptation, the concept is expanded as an opera within a musical.-The novel:...
, a fictional opera written by The Phantom of the Opera in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with the same name - The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest by Tirso de Molina
- Don Juan (1969 film)Don Juan (1969 film)Don Juan is a 1969 Czechoslovak short film by Jan Švankmajer, based on traditional Czech puppet plays of the Don Juan legend.-Plot:Within an old dilapidated and seemingly automated theater, human-sized marionettes perform a production of the Don Juan legend without the aid of puppeteers or an...
, a 1969 Czechoslovak short film - Don Juan (Brecht)Don Juan (Brecht)Don Juan is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of a seventeenth-century French play by Molière.-Works cited:...
, an adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht - Don Juan (ballet)Don Juan (ballet)Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre is a ballet with a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and choreography by Gasparo Angiolini. The ballet's first performance was in Vienna, Austria on Saturday, 17 October 1761, at the Theater am Kärntnertor...
, a ballet by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Christoph Willibald von Gluck and Gasparo Angiolini
- 'Don Giovanni