Don Giovanni (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2008) BLU-RAY

"Guth's] shabbily sombre, drug-fuelled, blood-bespattered take on Mozart's dramma giocoso (rarely indeed has the opera seemed less jocose) exerts a perverse fascination, not least for the interplay between the charismatic pairing of Maltman and Schrott...all the singers throw themselves wholeheartedly into Guth's Konzept."
(Gramophone)

"Giovanni's story...becomes a tale of fighting against imminent death, and Christopher Maltman plays it with convincing desperation. The singing is uniformly excellent, the acting of a high calibre, and Bertand de Billy's fast tempi keep the action taut...a fresh take on a great work."
(Classic FM)

"Christian Schmidt designs a crepuscular forest for Claus Guth's dark contemporary take on the opera...It's very much the women who have got a grip here. The rhythmic rigour of Dorothea Roschmann's Elvira splendidly embodies her fortitude...Giovanni and Leporello (superbly sung by Christopher Maltman and Erwin Schrott) are, by contrast, wrecks of men"
(BBC Music Magazine)

"The cast is top-drawer, with strong voices. There should be law against performing Mozart without Dorothea Röschmann, who here sings the crazed Elvira with real bite and zeal...Christopher Maltman and Erwin Schrott are two of the finest actors I've ever seen on an opera stage...They never break character and have clearly bought into Guth's interpretation hook, line and sinker"
(International Record Review)