Description
Mozart: Don Giovanni / ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE / Opus Arte
UPC: 809478011453
Total Play Time Is 192 minutes
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- MPAA rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions: 7.52 x 5.31 x 0.59 inches; 6.4 Ounces
- Director: Johnathan Haswell
- Media Format: Multiple Formats, Classical, NTSC
- Release date: September 30, 2014
- Actors: Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Malin Bystrom, Veronique Gens, Antonio Poli
- Subtitles: English, German, French, Korean, Japanese
- Studio: Opus Arte
- Country of Origin: USA
- Number of discs: 2
Kasper Holten's 'spectacular' (Guardian) production for The Royal Opera focuses on the creative and seductive energy of Don Giovanni - an energy both immensely appealing and dangerously destructive. Es Devlin's set plays with themes of reality and imagination, evoking the characters' states of mind. 'Holten directs meticulously... the pace is sure, and characterizations and relationships are sharply but subtly drawn' (Sunday Telegraph). Led by Mariusz Kwiecień, the cast includes some of today's most distinguished Mozartian singers. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.
"Its [Kasper Holten's version of Mozart's Don Giovanni] virtues start with Es Devlin's handsome set — a slowly revolving cube depicting the interior and exterior of a many-chambered plantation-style mansion — and Anja Vang Kragh's imaginative costuming, which locates the period around 1840. " (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★)
"With a cast that could not be bettered today allied to an insightful if sometimes idiosyncratic staging, this is a Don Giovanni that is never boring, often thrilling, and demands to be seen." (What's on Stage ★★★★)
"And in the Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien he's [Kasper Holten] found the man for the job: when this Don appears on Donna Anna's balcony, coolly adjusting his dress, he exudes such debonair attraction that the evident eagerness of Malin Bystrom's Donna Anna is entirely believable ... the drama gains steadily in force thanks to the beauty of the singing, the charisma of Alex Esposito's winningly clown-like Leporello, and the ingenious suggestiveness of Luke Halls’ video superimpositions on Es Devlin's set. " (The Independent)
