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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. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Performers Mats Almgren (Il Commendatore), Anna Samuil (Donna Anna), William Burden (Don Ottavio), Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leperello), Kate Royal (Donna Elvira), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto).
Music Mozart. Lyrics Da Ponte (1787). Producer Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Company Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Company The Glyndebourne Chorus. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Conductor Jakub Hrusa. Director Jonathan Kent. Design Paul Brown. Lighting Mark Henderson. Director Denni Sayers (movement). Director Alison de Burgh (movement).