The Midnight Angel (1993)

Don Giovanni’s servant, Leporello, waits outside the house of the Commendatore while his master, disguised, tries to seduce Donna Anna, the Commendatore’s daughter. Don Giovanni is surprised and, challenged by the Commendatore, kills him, and escapes.

The next day, while Anna and Ottavio are appealing t,) Don Giovanni for help in avenging her fathers murder, she thinks she recognizes his voice as that of her seducer. Her suspicions are confirmed by the arrival of Elvira, who has been left at the altar by Giovanni and has come to demand justice – but Leporello explains that her cause is hopeless. Giovanni, he says, has seduced at least two thousand other women.

In the meantime, Giovanni tries to detach Zerlina from her new husband, Masetto; to further his cause he invites them both to a ball at his palace. Ottavio, Anna and Elvira come masked to the ball to expose Giovanni; they succeed in interrupting his rape of Zerlina, but Giovanni escapes with Leporello,

Giovanni charges places with Leporello in the hope of seducing Elvira’s maid; Elvira herself, still pursuing justice, is deceived by the exchange. Giovanni’s serenade is interrupted by the vengeful Masetto and his friends who are determined to destroy the seducer; they mistake Giovanni for Leporello whom, until he unmasks, everyone now assumes to be the object of their vengeance.

Giovanni and Leporello hide in the churchyard where they are confronted by the spectral monument of the Commendatore. Giovanni invites him to dinner and Leporello is horrified when the Statue accepts the invitation.

Anna explains to Ottavio that because of the death of her father and the horror of recent events, it is impossible for the moment to consider their marriage.

Giovanni’s supper is interrupted first by the distracted Elvira and then by the Commendatores ghost: Giovanni must either repent or be damned. Giovanni refuses to repent and is dragged to Hell. The other characters comment wryly on the situation.