[ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 September 2016
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Mozart's magnificent dramma giocoso is an opera of extremes and ambiguities, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt - always intrepid and imaginative - explores them to thrilling effect. Seductive, but dangerous as Don Giovanni, Thomas Hampson - abetted by the sonorous Leporello of László Polgár - preys on the Zerlina of Barbara Bonney as he seeks to escape the vengeance of Donna Anna, sung by Edita Gruberová, and the obsession of Roberta Alexander's Donna Elvira.
"No interpretation of this endlessly fascinating work will ever hold all the answers, but this one provides a good deal of them in its lean, direct and perceptive way." Gramophone