Idéale audience
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni, or the last day on Earth of a serial seducer engaged in a headlong, despair-fuelled pursuit of pleasure and the oblivion of the Abyss. Mozart plays off Da Ponte’s libretto to create one of his most deeply moving scores, combining wit and a staggering control of drama with outrageously comic opera buffa. It is the first version, originally premiered in Prague in 1787, that the Dijon Opera house commissioned from the director Jean-Yves Ruf and Gerard Korsten, conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a highly-praised staging starring Edwin Crossley-Mercer as Don Giovanni and Ruxandra Donose as Donna Elvira.
Director :
Louise Narboni
Producer :
Co-production : Idéale Audience, Opéra de Dijon
With the participation of :
France Télévisions & Museec /medici.tv
Produced by ; Françoise Gazio
Running time :
2h44
Format :
HDCAM
Year of production :
2013
Composer(s) :
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage director :
Jean-Yves Ruf
Work(s) :
Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Cast :
Solistes :
Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Don Giovanni)
Josef Wagner (Leporello)
Ruxandra Donose (Donna Elvira)
Diana Higbee (Donna Anna)
Michael Smallwood (Don Ottavio)
Camille Poul (Zerlina)
Damien Pass (Masetto)
Timo Riihonen (Le Commandeur)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Gérard Korsten, conductor
Chœurs de l’Opéra de Dijon
Mihàly Zeke, choir master
Date and shoot location :
Filmed at Auditorium de l’Opéra de Dijon
Photo credits :
© Opéra de Dijon Gilles Abegg