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. Running time: 3hrs 15mins inclu. a twenty min. interval

Cast/Performers

In-Sung Sim (Il Commendatore), Natasha Jouhl (Donna Anna), Emanuele D'Aguanno), Audun Iversen (Don Giovanni), Robert Gleadow (Leporello), Nicole Heaston (Donna Elvira), Eliana Pretorian (Zerlina), Callum Thorpe (Masetto)

Creatives/Company

Music: Mozart
Lyrics: Da Ponte (1787)
Company(s): Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne on Tour Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor(s): Jakub Hrusa, Leo McFall (Nov 9 / 12 / 30 Dec 4)
Director(s): Jonathan Kent, Ashley Dean (revival), Denni Sayers (movement)
Design: Paul Brown
Lighting: Mark Henderson