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Zerlina follows the jealous Masetto and tries to pacify him ("Batti, batti o bel Masetto" – "Beat, O beat me, handsome Masetto"), but just as she manages to persuade him of her innocence, Don Giovanni's voice from offstage startles and frightens her. Masetto hides, resolving to see for himself what Zerlina will do when Don Giovanni arrives.
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The duet, with words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, is sung during the first act of the opera.Don Giovanni has just met Zerlina and her betrothed, Masetto. In an attempt to distract Masetto and have him removed from the scene, Giovanni offers to host a wedding celebration for the couple at his castle.
Mozart marks "cello obligato" in Don Giovanni in Zerlina's aria "Batti, batti, o bel Masetto ". Beethoven's duo for viola and cello, WoO 32, is subtitled mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern (with two [pairs of] obbligato eyeglasses) which seems to refer to the necessity, at the first performance, of spectacles for both Beethoven and his cellist.
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Battiato was born in Ionia, the former name of the town of Giarre-Riposto, in Sicily, southern Italy [7] After graduating from high school at the Liceo Scientifico "Archimede" in Acireale, and following the death of his father (truck driver and longshoreman in New York), [8] in 1964 he moved first to Rome, and then to Milan at age 19, and soon after won his first musical contract.
Title plate from the English Translation of Tosi's singing treatise, Observations on the Florid Song, first published in England in 1743. Pier Francesco Tosi (c. 1653 – 1732) was a castrato singer, composer, and writer on music.