Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2007)

DVD 1: Complete opera 2hr 52min
DVD 2: Making of "Looking for Don Giovanni" 54 min

The complete Innsbruck Festival Production, and a one-hour documentary about the maestro's work.

What the press says...
"René Jacobs completes his cycle of Mozart-Da Ponte operas with this absorbing set. Jacobs's Don Giovanni unfurls with all the 'wind, impatience, passion' that Søren Kierkegaard found in Mozart's opera. This account is well worth it." - Time Out New York

"Rene Jacobs' new Don Giovanni was the year's most important recording, and as befits the composer's self-described 'comic drama', its most enjoyable. Jacobs' achievement was returning the opera many consider the best ever written to the work Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte had in mind: a blend of the serious and comic in the best Baroque traditions. Freeing the piece from the weight of two centuries of over-interpretation brought it alive in a lusciously sung, snappily played version based on a staged production." - Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter

"Supported by the Freiburger Barockorchester, this Giovanni makes for marvelous listening. The miking of the instruments is masterful. But most surprising are the recitative sections, which are performed with panache and originality." - Early Music America

"René Jacobs' Mozart opera recordings are among the most hotly discussed classical sets of recent years. Revelations are everywhere. The cast is all unknowns, but with light voices, all good, all worth hearing." - The Philadelphia Inquirer

"If you thought you knew Mozart's 'Don Giovanni,' think again. It is a jolting account full of Fierce and absorbing details. Much of the drama explodes from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, playing period instruments with a bold vengeance." - The Plain Dealer