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DON GIOVANNI
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DON GIOVANNI
1999

Soloists: 
Carlos Álvarez, Adrianne Pieczonka, Anna Caterina Antonacci
Orchestra, Chorus: 
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor: 
Riccardo Muti
Director: 
Roberto De Simone

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira. De Simone succeeds in sticking to the flow of the plot and to the music, in which the soloists and Riccardo Muti’s state opera orchestra have a crucial part. Muti spiritedly conducts with a sense for style and gives the singers room to shine. In the baroque ambiance of the theatre on the river Wien, we experience a “Don Giovanni“ in a unique unity of theatrical pretence and top-rate musical performance.
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