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Mozart: Don Giovanni - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Christa Ludwig, Claire Watson, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Walter Berry, Paolo Montarsolo, Franz Crass, Otto Klemperer/ Warner Classics 4x Audio CD Stereo / 5099970448320
UPC 5099970448320
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [dɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as opera buffa). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".
| Label: | Warner Classics – 5099970448320 |
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| Format: |
4 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
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| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Classical, Opera |
Tracklist:
| CD1 | Sinfonia / Act I, Scene 1-3 | |
| CD2 | Act I, Scene 4 / Act II, Scene 1-2 | |
| CD3 | Act II, Scene 3-5 | |
| CD4 |
Behind The Scenes |
- Bass Vocals – Franz Crass, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Paolo Montarsolo, Walter Berry
- Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor – Otto Klemperer
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Christa Ludwig
- Orchestra – The New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Soprano Vocals – Claire Watson, Mirella Freni
- Tenor Vocals – Nicolai Gedda
