Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena is a tragicomic opera in five acts composed by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti to an Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati.

The libretto is based on the episodes set in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain in Book I of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote.

On this occasion they remained quite faithful to the text and basic story recounted Book I of Don Quixote where he travels to the Sierra Morena mountains and has a series of encounters with the wily inhabitants and two pairs of unhappy lovers.

Described in the libretto as a tragicomedia per musica (tragicomedy in music), it is essentially a parody of the opera seria genre and its heroic arias.

[1] Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena premiered at 6 February 1719 at the court theatre of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna.

[1][5] The opera's first performance in modern times was at the Buxton Festival in 1987, where it was sung in English translation with Neill Archer in the title role.

It was staged again at the 1992 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with René Jacobs conducting and Nicolas Rivenq in the title role.

Overjoyed, Dorotea and Cardenio promise to help Lope and Ordogno in their plan to bring Don Chisciotte home.

Sancio arrives and recounts how with the aid of magic he was able to fly to Dulcinea who told him that she wants only one thing—Don Chisciotte's return.

At a nearby inn, Sancio encounters the serving woman Maritorne who tries to seduce him, but he rejects her advances.

He mistakes Rigo's shaving bowl for the magic helmet of Mambrino (a character in Orlando Furioso) and steals it.

Mendo, the innkeeper, presents a puppet show involving a royal couple pursued by Moors.

Don Chisciotte, upset by the couple's impending death, takes out his sword and cuts the heads off all the puppets.

He climbs on a stool to reach her but Rigo pulls it away leaving Don Chisciotte dangling desperately from the window.