Description
Don Giovanni - W.A.Mozart DVD 1991 Conducted by Herbert von Karajan / Wiener Philharmoniker / Directed by Michael Hampe / Recorded July 18-31 1987 in Salzburg, Austria / Sony Video
UPC 5099704638393 / SVD 46383
ISBN: 0738919039 / 9780738919034 / 978-0738919034
REGION 0 PAL DVD (ALL REGIONS)
MADE IN THE EU
AUDIO: Stereo 2.0
Total Runtime: 193 minutes
Herbert von Karajan
Real Name: Heribert Ritter von Karajan
Profile: Austrian conductor, born April 5, 1908 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died July 16, 1989 in Anif, Austria. He was married to Eliette von Karajan, father of Arabel von Karajan and Isabel Karajan.
Cast:
- Don Giovanni – Samuel Ramey
- Don Ottavio – Gösta Winbergh
- Donna Anna – Anna Tomowa-Sintow
- Leporello – Ferruccio Furlanetto
- Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
Recorded in Salzburg 18-31 July, 1987
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer, by Spanish writer Tirso de Molina. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.
