donna giovanni

The Catalogue Aria

Food Style
"Don Giovanni, a young, arrogant, sexually prolific nobleman, 
abuses and outrages everyone else in the cast, 
until he encounters something he cannot kill, beat up, dodge, or outwit."
*his appetite? his ego?*
from Wikipedia (link)

Leporello sings:
Il Catalogo e Questo 
(link to original and translation)
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Madamina, here is a list 

Of the meals my master has loved,

A list which I have compiled.

Observe; read along with me.

Italian food - six hundred and forty;

German food - two hundred and thirty-one;

One hundred French meals; Turkey, ninety-one;

But Spanish (TexMex) already one thousand and three!

Among these are simple meals,

Snacks, city diners,

Maraschino cherries, princess pies,

Meals of every rank,

Every shape, served in every place.

With chicken, it is her custom

To praise its tenderness;

With meat, its tastefulness;

With desserts, its sweetness!

In winter, she likes the fatty ones.

In summer, she likes the thin ones.

She calls the tall ones "majestic."

The little ones are always "charming."

She eats at the old dives

For the pleasure of adding to the list!

Her greatest favourite 

Is the newly opened fast-food "beginner."

It doesn't matter if the food is rich,

Ugly or beautiful.

If it's on a plate

You know what she does!
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With all the usual thanks
And apologies to Mozart.
And all the real-life Don Jauns 
out there in BlogLand!