Mozart: Don Giovanni

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival 2021

2021 · 270 min · ★ 10.0 · Music

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial lover in his quest to conquer all women as he places his own pleasure above all other principles. Today, the rich depth of Mozart’s masterpiece still astonishes audiences with its mix of comedy and seriousness, pleasure and love, entertainment and murder. At the helm of this new Salzburg Festival production, in a near-live broadcast from the Great Festival Hall, director Romeo Castellucci promises to focus on the ambiguity and inner turmoil of this serial lover whose immoral behaviour condemns him to a deadly solitude. The exceptional cast – featuring Italian baritone Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni), Russian soprano Nadezhda Pavlova (Donna Anna) and Finnish bass Mika Kares (the Commendatore) – is accompanied by the chorus and musicians of the musicAeterna ensemble, conducted by Vitaly Polonsky and Teodor Currentzis.

Directed by Romeo Castellucci

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Davide Luciano Don Giovanni
Mika Kares II Commendatore
Nadezhda Pavlova Donna Anna
Michael Spyres Don Ottavio
Federica Lombardi Donna Elvira
Vito Priante Leporello
David Steffens Masetto
Anna Lucia Richter Zerlina
Teodor Currentzis Self – Conductor
musicAeterna Self – Orchestra / Choir

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