Don Giovanni
T01767476756
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.
Archive :: production:T01767476756, opera or operetta:S1919, venue:V377
Production details
Sung in Italian. Approx. running time 3 hours 25 minutes. Supported (2002)by Colubia Foundation of San Francisco with additional support provided by The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundations.
