Don Giovanni, K. 527

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Librettist/Text Author: Ponte, Lorenzo da

Conductor: Langree, Louis

Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Chorus: English Voices

Don Giovanni: Skovhus, Bo

Don Ottavio: Balzer, Colin

Donna Anna: Petersen, Marlis

Donna Elvira: Opolais, Kristine

Il Commendatore: Kotscherga, Anatoli

Leporello: Ketelsen, Kyle

Masetto: Bizic, David

Zerlina: Avemo, Kerstin

Set Designer: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Costume Designer: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Costume Designer: Zaitseva, Elena

Lighting Designer: Filshtinsky, Gleb

Stage Director: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Television Director: Sommer, Andy

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Date of Production: 07-2010

Festival: Aix-en-Provence Festival

Venue: Theatre de l'Archeveche, Aix-en-Provence

Playing Time: 03:02:39

Catalogue Number: BAC080

UPC: 3760115300804

Libretto

Don Giovanni, K. 527 DE

Synopsis

Don Giovanni, K. 527

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A new Don Giovanni in Aix by russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov and conductor Louis Langree.

More than two centuries after its creation, the emotional pull of this supreme opera remains absolutely intact. Dmitri Therniakov duly revisits the myth and makes the seducer of Seville a 'man without qualities', a cipher whose words have a hypnotic power over women. His words will disrupt the proprieties ruling the Commandatore's family. His words are also what makes Don Juan such a subversive figure and the embodiment of one of the most powerful modern European myths.

Leading the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Freiburger Barockorchester) one of the best Mozart current conductors, Louis Langree takes from this formation magnificent tones. Bo Skovhus portrays a dispirited Don Giovanni, old playboy and anti-hero. Kyle Ketelsen is his servant Leporello, currently the most talented baritone for this role. The female trio is composed of Marlis Petersen (Donna Anna), Kristine Opolais (Elvira) and Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina).