Video-on-Demand: Don Juan no existe

In the early 20th century, Countess Carmen Díaz de Mendoza Aguado, inspired yet frustrated by Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sets out to write her own version but struggles with doubt, societal pressures, and a haunting inner voice, leading to her play’s failure. Decades later, fragments of her life and work resurface through obituaries and fading memories. In 2024, a modern composer seeks to rediscover and reinvent her lost opera, conversing with the echoes of the past to reclaim the Countess’s silenced voice and vision.

This is the story of a new opera by Helena Cánovas Parés, commissioned by the Festival Perelada, in co-production with the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Teatro Real. Don Juan no existe seeks to pay homage to all those women who have been erased from history simply for having been born women. Staged at the internationally renowned Perelada Festival, which is held every summer in the monumental complex of the Perelada Castle in Catalonia.

Recorded on 08.08.2024