Hello there!
I'm taking the time to create this because a large majority of this fanfiction takes place around Erik's Don Juan Triumphant. Now for all of those who aren't complete opera geeks like me and tried to research more about Don Juan Triumphant, here's a little bit of background:
Because the theory behind Don Juan is that it was loosely based on the opera Don Giovanni, I'm pretending for the sake of this fanfiction, that the opera Don Giovanni doesn't exist, specifically because I don't have the heart for Erik to be one who plagiarized... Especially Mozart, since he's one of my favorite composers. My version of Don Juan Triumphant will be still set in Italian theoretically (although technically speaking it would have been set in French in reality since the original story of "Phantom of the Opera" is based in Paris), however again for the sake of this piece of fanfiction, everything related to the opera will be spoken in English.
Alright so, Act 1 is basically the same as Act 1, scene 1 of Don Giovanni, just because it's basically necessary for the rest of the plot. If you've never read the synopsis of Don Giovanni then you can find it here: http: .org/ wiki/ Don_Giovanni . However, the original names of the characters, I've taken from the very first story of Don Juan titled, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, and you can find the synopsis for this here: http:/ .org/wiki/ The_Trickster_of_ Seville_and_the_ Stone_Guest .
Now a word to the wise: I do use different excerpts from Don Giovanni, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, and also pieces of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera out of order in order to give it a little familiar feeling while trying to keep hold of Don Juan's image. However, up until Act 2, Scene 3, the titles of the different pieces sung within my version of Don Juan Triumphant, are all created by me, so there is some amount of original work in this.
***If you would like to use any part of my synopsis in the future for your own writings, I have no problem with sharing, however I would appreciate a quick private message to let me know, and also my story, link and pen name mentioned so I at least get some mention of the work I put in to create this synopsis.
And now, without further ado, here is the synopsis of my version for the opera Don Juan Triumphant. Enjoy!
Ever yours,
Soprano in Shadow
Characters:
Don Juan- Enough said
Passarino- The servant of Don Juan
Donna Isabela- A conquest of Don Juan's
Don Octavio- Isabela's fiancé
Don Pedro- Isabela's father
Aminta- Village girl
Batricio- Aminta's match-made fiancé who is in love with Tisbea
Tisbea (not seen)- Batricio's love who was sent away because of a scandal
Synopsis
Act One
Scene One. A palace in Seville.
The opera opens with Passarino in front of the curtains, who is waiting for his master, outside of a lady's chambers. In order to keep himself occupied, Passarino speaks with the audience of how tired he is, but how in awe he is of his master (Passarino: How the night passes/ Yet he is a fox in the night). The curtains than open up to a scene in the bedroom of Donna Isabela, who believes that she has just enjoyed an evening with her fiancé, Don Octavio (Isabela: Oh what joy there is in love). However, when she tries to turn on the light in her room, the man she has just beloved tries to stop her from doing so. After a small struggle, Isabela realizes it is not Don Octavio, but instead someone else. Embarassed at what she has done, Isabela cries for help claiming that she has been raped although that is not the truth (Isabela/ Don Juan: What evils have you brought me to pursue? / Women turn fickle from betraying), and Don Pedro bursts into the room and challenges the intruder, Don Juan, allowing for Isabela to escape and seek out her fiancé. The two men duel (Don Pedro/ Don Juan: Her virtue will nay be tarnished / For I am he who conquers), and Isabela returns with Don Octavio only to find her father dead, and the murderer and his accomplice gone. Together, the couple agrees to hunt down the murderer and take back her virtue (Don Octavio/ Donna Isabela: Ah! To avenge both blood and virtue!).
Short Intermission
Act Two
Scene One. A small village on the outskirts of Seville.
A betrothal ceremony is occurring between the match made couple, Barticio and Aminta, although Batricio is in love with Tisbea, another woman (Chorus: Oh joyous day of rapture; Aminta/ Batricio: He must forget and I must love/ Ah, Tisbea! You know not my pain!). Don Juan and Passarino arrive to this scene and Don Juan is immediately attracted to Aminta (Don Juan: Oh cruel fates, what joke is this!). In hopes of this merely being lust and not love, Don Juan introduces himself as Don Octavio, and invites the betrothal part to throw a lavish party at his expense. As the villagers crowd Passarino for money to spend (Passarino/ Chorus: Ah my master, how sly he is! / Ah his master, how kind he is!) This in turn causes Aminta to lose sight of her fiancé, and wanders off with Don Juan close behind. Startled, Aminta is at first on guard, and then begins to speak to him of how Batricio does not love her (Aminta: For he loves one who is not me!). Don Juan assures the soon-to-be bride that Batricio only needs to be persuade, and that he, Don Juan, will arrange for Batricio to go to her bed this evening. She agrees and leaves Don Juan to ponder his plan (Don Juan: Now let this showed affection cease).
Scene Two.
Don Juan speaks to Batricio of Aminta and Tisbea. Batricio is suspicious of Don Juan's intentions towards Aminta, although Batricio still does not love her. In order to get him out of the way, Don Juan suggests for Batricio to go in search of Tisbea and speak to her of his feelings, however either way he will not be alone. For if Tisbea choose him, then Batricio will never have to return. But if Tisbea rejects him then he'll at least have Aminta to return to (Don Juan/ Batricio: On either hand, a maiden you'll/I'll have). When Batricio leaves to tell Aminta that he is traveling to see his family Don Juan rushes him along, and tells him that he will go and explain everything to Aminta instead (Don Juan/ Batricio: But were my soul to not object/ Dear heart, to you I go).
Scene Three.
This scene is where Past the Point of No Return occurs between Don Juan and Aminta. Basically the chorus opens up the scene (Chorus: Here the sire may serve the dam), and then the duet with the exact same choreography as found in the film. At the end of the duet, Don Juan does continue to sing (Don Juan: All I Ask of You), as he realizes that he is indeed in love with Aminta, and can no longer go through with using and leaving Aminta, but instead plans to marry her after the deed is finished. At the end of his short solo, the lights on stage dim, as the orchestra plays Point of No Return once more, only to be interrupted by the stage being flooded with light once more, and Aminta wrapped in a robe is speaking with who she thinks is Batricio. She explains that although she is glad he finally loves her, she has instead fallen in love with Don Juan himself (Aminta: Fickle fate has shown love for me). As Don Juan is about to reveal his true identity, Batricio rushes in, against the attempts of Passarino trying to stop him, in order to thank Don Juan and tell him that he will take his leave once he sees Aminta again to solidify his decision. He sees Aminta, and Aminta hears his words, and both are furious at Don Juan for his deception. Aminta accuses him of being false, while Don Juan pleads for Aminta to listen and Batricio demands a duel (Aminta/ Don Juan/ Batricio/ Passarino: Was I to be your prey for lust? / This pitiful soul / Creature of deception / Make haste and flee, good master).
Intermission
Act Three
Scene One. A graveyard on the outskirts of Seville.
Because of the rigid village laws, it is said that the betrothal between Aminta and Batricio is dissolved, and Don Juan has been chased out of the village with Passarino. Overcome and distraught with shame, Aminta visits the grave of her parents, and decides that she must die in order to save her soul from being sent to Hell (Aminta: If through death virtue can be regained). Before her death, Don Juan arrives in time to stop Aminta from delivering the deathly blow with a dagger in front of the statue of Don Pedro (Don Juan/ Aminta: If for but a moment, listen to love/ False one, cease my torment!). Unbeknownst to them, Donna Isabela and Don Octavio have finally caught up with Don Juan, and listen to the couple. Don Juan convinces Aminta that he is there to take her away and marry her because she loves him, despite his ugly character, with a pure love (Don Juan: Of purity and love). Realizing that this is indeed not another trick, Aminta agrees to leave with him, and the two profess their love to each other (Don Juan/ Aminta: All I ask of you, however, this would be a bit faster and just as passionate as Past the point of no return—Almost like La Traviata's ending duet). Unfortunately none of this moves the status of Don Pedro, who is there to take Don Juan with him to Hell and does not believe that the masked Don can change that quickly because of a woman. As the statue begins to sink into the ground, the statue grabs hold of Don Juan in its grasp. Don Octavio and Donna Isabela come out of hiding and sing of how they can now marry in peace, although how Don Juan finally loving someone and then sent to Hell is right punishment (Octavio/Isabela: The wronged in peace can rest their heads). While Don Juan begins to sink into the ground as well, the chorus of Hell begins its horrid declaration of deserved punishment in the afterlife and Aminta begins to plead with them, insisting that Don Juan is indeed changed (Chorus/ Aminta: Off to your chains and fire you go/ Ah, but if he is that man no more…). Aminta is so certain of her love for Don Juan that she sacrifices her own life so that she may save Don Juan in the after life, in order for them to be together.
