The Stone Guest (play)

The Stone Guest (Russian: «Каменный гость», romanized: Kamennyy gost') is a poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin based on the Spanish legend of Don Juan.

Save for the duel, there is little action, and though written in the form of a play, scholars agree that it was never meant for the stage.

[citation needed] Pushkin wrote the play after seeing the premiere of a Russian-language version of Mozart's 1787 opera Don Giovanni.

Don Juan, illegally returned from exile for having murdered Commander de Salva, seduces the latter's widow, Doña Ana, when she visits the grave of her late husband.

In 2012 the English composer Philip Godfrey adapted the play into an operetta, also called The Stone Guest.