# Recommend a recording of Don Giovanni

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 20, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-recording-of-don-giovanni/270166 "2004-10-20T03:41:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-recording-of-don-giovanni/270166/1 "2004-10-20T03:41:17Z")

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I saw Amadeus a while ago, and have since been obsessed with the Requiem, but now that the better part of a year has passed and I’ve pretty much purchased and listened to all the recordings of Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiems I’ve been able to lay my hands on, I took to watching Amadeus again. Now I’ve fallen in love with that one seven-minute bit of Don Giovanni that was in the film, and I want to listen to the opera in its entirety. But alas, my entertainment budget is not what it used to be, and it looks like I can afford only a couple more CDs this year.

So if I were to listen to just one recording, which one should it be?