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.