The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House - Don Giovanni - DVD

Don Giovanni was commissioned by the Prague Opera immediately after the success of The Marriage of Figaro Mozart and Da Ponte chose a subject that had just triumphed a few weeks earlier in Venice, Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni. Taking up the theme of The Deceiver of Seville, which had already been very popular in the theatre since the mid-seventeenth century, Da Ponte focused his work on the libertine character of Don Juan, no doubt inspired by his famous friend Casanova. The result is dazzling, never leaving the spectator the slightest respite between murders, scenes of seduction, cunning and fantastic apparitions here is a grand spectacle served by extraordinary music, an absolute masterpiece, to which Prague gave an exceptional triumph. Marshall Pynkoski takes the characters here in a dramatic whirlwind dressed in Christian Lacroix's fantasies Robert Gleadow finally takes on the role of Don Giovanni; and Gaetan Jarry makes the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal shine.

Kasper Holten's 2014 production of Don Giovanni for the Royal Opera offers a glimpse inside the mind of one of opera's most notorious seducers. With a spectacular revolving set by award-winning designer Es Devlin, ingenious video projections by Luke Halls, and an 'ideal cast on world beating form' (The Independent), this staging brings Mozart's dazzling score to life, in all it's wit, glamour, and darkness. Inch... A stunning evening... with Roberto Tagliavini's Leporello and Erwin Schrott's Giovanni we get a definitive pairing.Inch (Independent)

Simon Keenlyside, Kyle Ketelson, Eric Hallvarson, Marina Poplavaskaya, Joyce DiDonato, Ramon Vargas, Miah Persson, and Robert Glendow star in this Royal Opera production of the Mozart opera conducted by Charles Mackerras on 2 DVDs.