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Of the many operas based on the legend of Don Juan, Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is thought to be beyond comparison. Although often classified as comic, it is a unique blend of comic and drama. Subtitled dramma giocoso, the opera blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements. The finale, in which Don Giovanni refuses to repent, has been a captivating philosophical and artistic topic for many writers including George Bernard Shaw, who in Man and Superman parodied the opera (with explicit mention of the Mozart score for the finale scene between the Commendatore and Don Giovanni). The styling of Raymond Weil's Don Giovanni Cosi Grande lends itself well to the name of Mozart's grand opera. In brief, the opera centers around Don Giovanni, a young nobleman. After a life of amorous conquests, he meets defeat in his three encounters: with Donna Elvira, whom he has deserted but who still follows him; with Donna Anna, whose father, the Commendatore, Giovanni kills in escaping from an unsuccessful attempt at rape and as a result postpones her marriage to Don Ottavio; and with Zerlina, whom Giovanni vainly tries to lure from her fiance, the peasant Masetto. All vow vengeance on the Don and his harassed servant Leporello. Elvira alone weakens in her resolution and attempts reconciliation in the hope that the Don reforms. Don Giovanni's destruction and deliverance to hell are effected by the cemetery statue of the Commendatore, who had accepted the libertine's invitation to supper. Considered by some to be the greatest of operas, Don Giovanni and its namesake, the Don Giovanni wristwatch by Raymond Weil are encapsulated by boldness, strength, drama and passion.