Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2014)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2014)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Véronique Gens , Antonio Poli / Nicola Luisotti (cond
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 September 2014
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Mozart's sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wanted to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni's sex life into a darker place, showing Giovanni's womanizing as an attempt to stave off his own mortality. Each woman he seduces represents a life he could have had. Though it is a dark piece, Holten handles it with a light touch and works with a superb cast - Mariusz Kwiecien, one of the world's leading Don Giovannis, Alex Esposito, a fresh, vigorous Leporello and acclaimed French soprano Véronique Gens.
Set designs including innovative use of projections are by Es Devlin (most recently at the Royal Opera House with Les Troyens), Nicola Luisotti conducts.
Extra features: Introduction, Don Giovanni's Women, Director's commentary and a cast gallery.
Running time: 187 minutes
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KO
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
"anyone who misses Mariusz Kwiecien's performance here will regret it...never have I seen a final scene so aggressively personal, so mad, so viciously without repentance...Watt's Zerlina is charming and pure-toned. Alex Esposito offers a star turn as Leporello...The Covent Garden forces are downright magnificent." (International Record Review)
"Holten shows us Giovanni as a man older than usual, lonely, perhaps trying to stave off his fear of death with each new seduction...Some of the singing would not pass muster on CD. But the acting is beyond praise...Kwiecien has a dangerous charm and Alex Esposito, more friend than servant, is a perfect foil." (Gramophone)
