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Don Giovanni


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Written shortly after The Marriage of Figaro. Based on the famous legend of Don Juan the master seducer from whom no woman can be considered safe. Don Giovanni pursues, seduces, rapes and murders and in the climax is pulled to hell by a stone statue of one of his victims come to life - he remains unrepentant. His servant Leporello witnesses all his masters wrongs. There is also a rarely performed opera of the same name (and story) by Giuseppe Gazzaniga which was first performed in 1786, eight months before Mozart's version.
Music Mozart
Lyrics Da Ponte

Production details

Sung in Italian with English surtitles (+ Welsh in Cardiff and Llandudno)

News etc

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Company

Company Welsh National Opera
Conductor tba
Director Katie Mitchell
Director Elaine Kidd (revival director)
Design Rae Smith
Lighting Paule Constable
Choreographer Emma Rice
Director Terry King (fight)
Performer Christopher Purves (Don Giovanni - except Jul 12/14)
Performer Robert Poulton (Leporello)
Performer Geraldine McGreevy (Donna Anna)
Performer Elizabeth Atherton (Donna Elvira)
Performer Matthew Beale (Don Ottavio)
Performer Jonathan May (Commendatore)
Performer Elizabeth Donovan (Zerlina)
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