From 12 February till 20 February 2021

From 12 to 20 February 2021

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart /
DON GIOVANNI

Dramma giocoso in two acts

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Conductor | Riccardo Muti

Master of the Chorus | Gea Garatti

Stage director | Chiara Muti

Set designer | Leila Fteita

Costume designer | Alessandro Lai

Lighting designer | Vincent Longuemare

Cast

Don Giovanni | Luca Micheletti*

Il Commendatore | Antonio Di Matteo

Donna Anna | Mandy Fredrich*

Don Ottavio | Giovanni Sala

Donna Elvira | Mariangela Sicilia

Leporello | Alessandro Luongo

Zerlina | Fatma Said

Masetto | Igor Onishchenko*

*debut at Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo

New Production of Teatro di San Carlo

February 2021

SERIE ORO

Friday 12 February, h 20.00 - Series A - Fee II

Sunday 14 February, h 17.00 - Series F - Fee II

Tuesday 16 February, h 20.00 - Series C/D - Fee III

Thursday 18 February, h 18.00 - Series B - Fee III

Saturday 20 February, h 19.00 - Out of subscription - Fee II

Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 3 hours and 30 minutes, including one interval

Don Giovanni is the second Italian opera of a trilogy that Mozart composed in Vienna with Lorenzo Da Ponte's librettos. It was first performed in Prague, in October, 1787 where the revival of The Marriage of Figaro already enjoyed a great triumph. Apparently, Casanova, on whose romantic adventures the plot was loosely based, was present. All of the elements deriving from the old commedia dell'arte are present in its perfect dramatic structure. We find the serious characters (the nobles Donna Anna and Don Ottavio, the Commendatore's ghost), the comical or low ones (Leporello the servant, Zerlina the peasant and her husband Masetto) and the more realistic roles of Don Giovanni and his true antagonist Donna Elvira. However, it is in the depiction of the tragic figure of the 'Burlador de Sevilla' that Mozart's work finds its true dimension. It is in the figure of the great seducer, eternally condemned to meaningless serial conquests - punctually recorded in a catalogue by his funny counterpart, Leporello - that Don Giovanni continues to acquire the universal value of a masterpiece that fascinated Mozart and Da Ponte and before them playwrights such as Tirso, Molière and Goldoni or philosophers such as Kierkgaard or Starobinsky. A masterpiece that still bewitches theater audiences all over the world. After the enormous success of Così fan tutte, Riccardo Muti comes back to Teatro San Carlo once again, following the trilogy backwards, under the stage direction of Chiara Muti in a new production of Mozart's masterpiece.