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.

Cast/Performers

In-Sung Sim (Il Commendatore), Albina Shagimurativa (Donna Anna), Toby Spence (Don Ottavio), Lucas Meachem (Don Giovanni), Matthew Rose (Leporello), Miah Persson (Donna Elvira), Marita Solberg (Zerlina), David Soar (Masetto)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Producer: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Director(s): Jonathan Kent, Lloyd Wood (revival), Denni Sayers (movement), Alison de Burgh (fight)
Design: Paul Brown
Lighting: Mark Henderson
Company(s): The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Chorus