Leaping across the footlights: Erwin Schrott on opera's “bad boy”

Erwin Schrott

Erwin Schrott as Don Giovanni in Francesca Zambello's production

Bryan Hymel, Malin Bystrom and Erwin Schrott in Les Vêpres siciliennes

Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni)

By Mark Pullinger, 13 September 2019

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Leaping across the footlights: Erwin Schrott on Don Giovanni, opera's ultimate “bad boy”