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 talan wth English titles.

Cast/Performers

William Dazeley (Don Giovanni), James Platt (Il Commeddatore), Jennifer Davis (Donna Anna), Nicholas Watts (Don Ottavio), Elizabeth Atherton (Donna Elvira), Alastair Miles (Leporello), Ross McInroy (Masetto), Kathryn Rudge (Zerlina)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Company: Opera North
Conductor: Aleksandar Markovic
Director: Alessandro Talevi
Design: Madeleine Boyd
Costume: Madeleine Boyd
Lighting: Matthew Haskins
Choreographer: Victoria Newlyn
Other: Craig Turner (aerial stunt advisor)