Mozart: Don Giovanni

August. 07,2021

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Opera

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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.

Davide Luciano as Don Giovanni

Mika Kares as II Commendatore

Nadezhda Pavlova as Donna Anna

Michael Spyres as Don Ottavio

Federica Lombardi as Donna Elvira

Vito Priante as Leporello

David Steffens as Masetto

Anna Lucia Richter as Zerlina

Teodor Currentzis as Self – Conductor

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty

2021/08/07

Memorable, crazy movie

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Acensbart

2021/08/08

Excellent but underrated film

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Tayloriona

2021/08/09

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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Abbigail Bush

2021/08/10

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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