© Monika Rittershaus
Don Giovanni
Opéra Bastille
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
The Paris Opera opens its 23/24 season with a new production of Don Giovanni. If Mozart's masterpiece has fascinated generations since its Prague premiere in 1787, it is not only because his score achieves an unparalleled convergence of comedy and drama, but also because its expressive force deepens tenfold the myth of Don Giovanni, the philanderer who defies God and society. Responsive to the score's immediacy, Claus Guth imagines that Don Giovanni has been shot during his duel with the Commendatore. From then on, the libertine devotes his last hours to savouring life, whilst his faithful Leporello, an accomplice rather than a servant, seeks to soothe his pain. Disrupting the timeline, Claus Guth offers a new vision of the characters. Like a wounded beast, Don Giovanni satisfies his predatory instincts in a sensual, nocturnal pine forest, a hunting ground or an Eden forfeited for his sins.
Don Giovanni
Production de 2023
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Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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ConductorAntonello Manacorda
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ConductorGiancarlo Rizzi
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Chorus masterAlessandro Di Stefano
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Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Director
Claus Guth
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Set design and Costume design
Christian Schmidt
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Lighting design
Olaf Winter
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Choreography
Ramses Sigl
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Dramaturgy
Ronny Dietrich
Cast
Mattei
Don Giovanni
Zaharia
Donna Anna
Bliss
Don Ottavio
Relyea
Il Commendatore
Arquez
Donna Elvira
Esposito
Leporello
Worms
Masetto
Fang
Zerlina
The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
A production by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, in partnership with the Salzburger Festpiele