Description
Mozart - Don Giovanni / Allen, Gruberova, Murray, Araiza, Desderi, Mentzer, Muti / Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala / Opus Arte
UPC: 809478030010
Playtime is 179 Minutes
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- MPAA rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Media Format: Classical, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color
- Run time: 2 hours and 59 minutes
- Release date: June 15, 2004
- Actors: Thomas Allen, Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza
- Dubbed: Italian
- Subtitles: English
- Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio: Opus Arte
- Number of discs: 1
Summary
Riccardo Muti conducts a sublime cast, headed by Thomas Allen in the title role of the great seducer, in the 1987 La Scala recording of Mozart and Da Ponte's tale of lust and subversion. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television, this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
"A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and Claudio Desderi's Leporello enact a limitlessly fascinating central relationship, and Susanne Mentzer is a delicious Zerlina. " (BBC Music Magazine ★★★)
