Tausend Ideen für 1003 Liebschaften: Don Giovanni in Salzburg

Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni)

Don Giovanni

Dmitry Ulyanov (Il Commendatore), Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni) und Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello)

Federica Lombardi (Donna Elvira) und Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello)

Anna El-Khashem (Zerlina) und Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni)

Julian Prégardien (Don Ottavio) und Nadezhda Pavlova (Donna Anna)

Nadezhda Pavlova (Donna Anna)

Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni)

Federica Lombardi, Nadezhda Pavlova, Julian Prégardien, Anna El-Khashem, Kyle Ketelsen, Ruben Drole

By Michael Vieth, 14 August 2024

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“das Undenkbare zuzulassen öffnet einen neuen Raum, vielleicht eine neue Dimension”

Reviewed at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg on 11 August 2024

Mozart, Don Giovanni

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

Romeo Castellucci, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer, Lighting Designer

Utopia

Utopia Choir

Davide Luciano, Don Giovanni

Kyle Ketelsen, Leporello

Nadezhda Pavlova, Donna Anna

Federica Lombardi, Donna Elvira

Anna El-Khashem, Zerlina

Dmitry Ulyanov, The Commendatore

Julian Prégardien, Don Ottavio

Ruben Drole, Masetto

Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 26th April

The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.

****1

Straussian pastoral: Daphne at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Elena Luporini, 19th February

Romeo Castellucci's new production of Daphne for the Staatsoper reflects on our relationship with nature, subverting the perspective of Richard Strauss' opera.

***11

Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

George Jahn, 2nd August

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

***11

To die in order to live: Castellucci's Resurrection

Romain Daroles, 4th July

Following his Requiem at the 2019 Aix Festival, Romeo Castellucci surprises us with the purity and humility of his Mahler Second, conducted remarkably by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

****1

A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

Hugo Shirley, 4th August

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving.

***11

Castellucci’s makeover of Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide Festival

Brian Angus, 28th February

A work designed to be performed in church has become a dramatic music theatre event that captured and held me enthralled throughout in a meditation on both death and life.

****1

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Michael Vieth

Michael Vieth ist Physiker und hat viele Jahre in der Zentralen Forschung der Siemens AG in Erlangen und München an magnetischen Speichern und Sensoren gearbeitet. Auch von klassischer Musik magnetisiert, singt er seit seinem Studium in Göttingen in großen Kantoreien und Chorprojekten; eine besondere Vorliebe hat sich zu Motetten der Renaissance und der Moderne entwickelt. Daneben faszinieren ihn Auftritte und Programme kleiner Vokal-Ensembles.

Tausend Ideen für 1003 Liebschaften: Castelluccis Don Giovanni bei den Salzburger Festspielen