Don Giovanni (En)
Opera in two acts
Oct 7 –Dec 17 2023
PREMIERE October 7 2023
STAGE Main stage
LANGUAGE Italian, surtitles in Swedish and English
LENGTH 3 h 15 min incl interval
AGE from 13 years
Meet the scrupuleless woman chaser Dion Giovanni who both seduces and ruins in his constant hunt for new adventures. The ancient legend of the seducer Don Juan has fascintated people through the ages and Mozart’s operatic version includes much of his most wonderful music.
Don Giovanni is a young, arrogant and completely shameless aristocrat. His favourite pastime is to conquer women. Some of whom fall helplessly in love, but there are those who do not welcome his intentions. This causes problems with angry fathers, jealous fiances and murderous husbands.
As Don Giovanni continues on his way to look for new adventures, his servant Leporello cleans up the wreckage in his wake. A thankless task that eventually gets on Leporello’s nerves. Despite this he helps his master time after time - he is only a servant and gentlemen behave as they will.
But now Don Giovanni is suspected of being mixed up in a death and the question is if Leporello can get him out of trouble this time. That is, if he wants to…
Creative
MUSIC Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LIBRETTO Lorenzo Da Ponte
CONDUCTOR Wolfgang Wengenroth
ORIGINAL DIRECTOR Paul-Émile Fourny
REVIVAL DIRECTOR Anselmi Hirvonen Hillevi Björnsson and Ylva Kihlberg
SET DESIGN Poppi Ranchetti
COSTUME DESIGN Giovanna Fiorentini
LIGHTING DESIGN Patrick Méeüs
Cast
DON GIOVANNI Jacques Imbrailo
LEPORELLO Henning von Schulman
DONNA ANNA Matilda Sterby
DON OTTAVIO Joel Annmo
DONNA ELVIRA Rachael Wilson/Linnea Nordenback (Nov 24 and Dec 3, 8, 15)
ZERLINA Viktoria Karlsson
MASETTO Nikolai Elsberg
COMMENDATORE Taras Shtonda
Extras
Nanna Erman
Ásta Indía Valdimarsdóttir
Éléonore Soumah
Linn Carlson
Alva Eidhagen
Jonna Carlberg
Evelina Wagner
Henrik Andersson
Vilmer Ericsson
André M Gewessler
Marcus Thernström Florin
Mattias Thernström Florin
Don Giovanni is a production from Savonlinna Opera festival and premiered 2011.