Description
Mozart - Don Giovanni (Highlights) / Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris, Lorin Maazel / Essential Classics, Opera / Sony Classical Audio CD 1996 / SBK 62 663
UPC 074646266328
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [dɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or 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, written by 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.
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 has been described by critic Fiona Maddocks as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with libretti by Ponte".
| Label: | Sony Classical – SBK 62 663 |
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| Series: | Essential Classics, Opera |
| Format: |
CD
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
1996 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Classical, Opera |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Overture | 5:57 | |
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ACT I |
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| 2 | No. 4 Aria: "Madamina, il catalogo e questo" | 5:43 | |
| 3 | No 5. Coro: "Giovinette che fate all'amore" | 1:27 | |
| 4 | No. 7 Duettino: "La ci darem lamano" | 3:12 | |
| 5 | No. 10: Aria: "Or sai chi l'onore" | 2:51 | |
| 6 | No. 10a Aria: "Dalla sua pace" | 3:40 | |
| 7 | No. 8 Aria: "Ah, fuggi il traditor" | 1:09 | |
| 8 | No. 11 Aria: "Fin ch'han dal vino" | 1:23 | |
| 9 | No. 12 Aria: "Batti, batti, o bel Masetto" | 3:49 | |
| 10 | No. 13 Finale: "Riposate, vezzose ragazze" | 8:56 | |
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ACT II |
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| 11 | No. 14 Duetto: "Eh via, buffone" | 1:07 | |
| 12 | No. 15 Terzotto: "Ah! taci, ingiusto core" | 4:43 | |
| 13 | No. 16 Canzonetta: "Deh, vieni alla finestra" | 1:51 | |
| 14 | No. 21a Aria: ""Il mio tesoro intanto" | 4:13 | |
| 15 | No. 21b Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria: "In quali eccessi"... | 6:50 | |
| 16 | No. 23 Rondo: "Non mi dir, bell'idol mio" | 5:12 | |
| 17 | No. 24 Finale: "Gia la mensa e preparata"..."L'ultima prova dell'amor mio"..."Don Gionvanni, a cenar teco m'invitasti" (Don Giovanni, Leporello, Donna Elvira, Commendatore, Coro) | 15:22 | |
| 18 | "Questo e il fin" | 1:35 |
- Baritone Vocals, Bass Vocals – José van Dam
- Bass Vocals, Baritone Vocals – Ruggero Raimondi
- Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor – Lorin Maazel
- Harpsichord – Janine Reiss
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Teresa Berganza
- Orchestra – Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris
- Painting – G.P. Pannini
- Soprano Vocals – Kiri Te Kanawa
