Details

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. Sung in English

Cast/Performers

George von Bergen (Don Giovanni), Nicholas Lester (Don Giovanni), Matthew Stiff (Leporello), Piotr Lempa (Il Commendatore), Tim Dawkins (Il Commendatore), Camilla Roberts (Donna Anna), Gillian Ramm (Donna Anna), Susanna Fairbairn (Donna Anna), Robyn Lyn Evans (Don Ottavio), Ania Jeruc (Donna Elvira), Damantha Hay (Donna Elvira), Bradley Travis (Masetto), Maciek O'Shea (Masetto), Lucy Hall (Zerlina)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Company: English Touring Opera
Conductor(s): Michael Rosewell, John Andrews
Director: Lloyd Wood
Design: Anna Fleischle
Lighting: Guy Hoare