Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DVD 1991 / Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the Prague National theatre / Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras / amado 2001

UPC 4028462020011

REGION 0 PAL DVD (All regions)

MADE IN Germany

AUDIO: Digital Stereo

SUBTITLES: -

Total Runtime: 152 MINUTES

English Summary:

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.^[1] 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.

Don Giovanni is generally regarded as one of Mozart’s supreme achievements and one of the greatest operas of all time, and it has proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers. A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it is ninth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas of the 2018-19 season.^[2]

Recorded live on December 1st, 1991

Live-Aufnahme vom 1. Dezember 1991

Orchester, Chor und Ballett des Nationaltheaters Prag
Dirigent: Sir Charles Mackerass

Solisten / Soloists

Andrei Bestchastny: Don Giovanni, Baritone
Dalibor Jedlička: Der Komtur, Bass
Nadezdha Petrenko: Donna Anna, Soprano
Vladimír Doležal: Don Ottavio, Tenor
Jiřina Marková: Donna Elvira, Soprano
Luděk Vele: Leporello, Bass
Zdeněk Harvánek: Masetto, Bass
Alice Randová: Zerlina, Soprano