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. New Production.

Cast/Performers

Natale de Carolis (Don Giovanni), Barbara Frittoli (Donna Anna), Sandra Zeltzer (Donna Elvira), Alessandro Corbelli (Leporello), Bruce Ford (Don Occtavio), Gwynne Howell (Commendatore), Patrizia Biccire (Zerlina), Nathan Berg (Masetto)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Company: Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company
Conductor: Andrew Davis
Director: Graham Vick
Design: Richard Hudson
Choreographer: Ron Howell
Lighting: Richard Hudson

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T02037625759. Details of all Don Giovanni archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1919

Archive Listings

15 Jul 00
to
27 Aug 00

Glyndebourne
Lewes, East Sussex
Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

from an ordinary punter: 11Jan01:
A truly awful evening orchestra and stage badly balanced, production unsubtle and gratuitously "in your face" and poor dramatic presentation. Thank goodness its Graham Vicks last outing - he has ruined one of my favourite operas forever as I will never again be able to see it beyond the self indulgent pretentious mess he served up.

User Reviews

from an ordinary punter (11Jan01): A truly awful evening orchestra and stage badly balanced, production unsubtle and gratuitously "in your face" and poor dramatic presentation. Thank goodness its Graham Vicks last outing - he has ruined one of my favourite operas forever as I will never again be able to see it beyond the self indulgent pretentious mess he served up.

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