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 supertitles.

Cast/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)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Producer: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Company(s): Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor(s): Vladimir Jurowski, Jakub Hrusa
Director(s): Jonathan Kent, Denni Sayers (movement), Alison de Burgh (movement)
Design: Paul Brown
Lighting: Mark Henderson