Don Giovanni: Bayerische Staatsoper

O wydarzeniu

Watch Mozart's most famous lothario plot, scheme, sleep around and, eventually, receive his comeuppance.

Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death‐dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self‐realization.

This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?

Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.

In Italian with German surtitles

Conductor: Constantinos Carydis
Director: Stephan Kimmig
Set design: Katja Haß
Costume design: Anja Rabes
Video: Benjamin Krieg
Lighting: Reinhard Traub
Dramaturgy: Miron Hakenbeck
Chorusmaster: Stellario Fagone

Don Giovanni: Christopher Maltman
The Commendatore: Ain Anger
Donna Anna: Erin Wall
Don Ottavio: Charles Castronovo
Donna Elvira: Véronique Gens
Leporello: Alex Esposito
Zerlina: Golda Schultz
Masetto: Tareq Nazmi