Imagining Don Giovanni Author:Anthony J. Rudel, Anthony Rudel In October 1787 Giacomo Casanova and Wolfgang Mozart are believed to have met in a Prague coffeehouse to discuss a new opera based on the life of Don Juan. From this minor episode, Anthony Rudel has spun a tale in which the two, along with the poet Lorenzo Da Ponte, work to complete the operatic masterpiece. A struggle of wills is resolved only ... more »when, in the eleventh hour, the Marquis de Sade writes from his asylum cell to implore the trio to unite in support of Don Giovanni's theme of personal freedom.« less