Mozart's opera version of the Don Juan legend proves a perfect fit for Losey, with its dark story of an unrepentant libertine – a rapist and murderer – pursued by the aristocrats he has ruthlessly victimized. A summit of Losey's complex mise-en-scène and meticulous attention to period detail, Don Giovanni was shot in Palladian villas in and around Venice and Vicenza. Although Losey cared far more for jazz than opera, he nevertheless managed to direct one of the great opera films, assembling an exquisite cast of opera luminaries and drawing out the Loseyian aspects of Mozart's tragedy of sexual cruelty, infidelity and class conflict.