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 Italian with English surtitles
Cast/Performers
Erwin Schrott, Gerald Finley, Adela Zaharia, Frederic Antoun, Nicole Chevalier, Christopher Maltman, Paolo Bordogna, Vanessa GoikoetxeaCreatives/Company
Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Producer(s): Royal Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Israeli Opera, Houston Grand Opera
Director: Kasper Holten
Design(s): Es Devlin, Luke Halls (video)
Lighting: Bruno Poet
Costume: Anja Vang Kragh
Choreographer: Signe Fabricius
Conductor: Constantin Trinks
