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Don Giovanni

Hungarian State Opera: AuditoriumAndrássy út 22, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1061, Hungary
Dates/times in Budapest time zone
Saturday 09 May 202618:00
Sunday 10 May 202611:00
Tuesday 12 May 202618:00
Friday 15 May 202618:00
Saturday 16 May 202618:00
Sunday 17 May 202611:00
Programme
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)Don GiovanniLibretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Performers
Hungarian State Opera
Gábor HontváriConductor
Claus GuthDirector
Christian SchmidtSet Designer, Costume Designer
Olaf WinterLighting Designer
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Hungarian State Opera Chorus
Ronny DietrichDramaturgy
Ulrike Zimmermann-MattarChoreography
Marion BenagèsChoreography
Károly SzemerédyBaritoneDon Giovanni
Zsolt HajaBaritoneDon Giovanni
Gabriella BalgaMezzo-sopranoDonna Anna
Orsolya SáfárSopranoDonna Anna
Mária CelengSopranoDonna Elvira
Lilla HortiSopranoDonna Elvira
Krisztián CserBassLeporello
Csaba SándorBass-baritoneLeporello
Eszter ZemlényiSopranoZerlina
Anija LombardSopranoZerlina
István RáczBassThe Commendatore
Istvan HorvathTenorDon Ottavio
Artúr SzeleczkiTenorDon Ottavio
Bence PatakiBassMasetto

There are works of art that are timeless, that you cannot get tired of, that cannot be performed too many times. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is no exception – it is no coincidence that it is known as the “opera of operas”. And some productions, even if they were staged several decades ago, are still relevant and worth revisiting. One such production is Don Giovanni, directed by Claus Guth for the 2008 Salzburg Festival, which has since been staged in Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam – and will be performed not only at the Opéra Bastille in Paris but also at the Hungarian State Opera in the 2023/24 season. Claus Guth envisioned Don Giovanni in a forest. The forest has always been an inspiring setting for dramatic action, love, death, getting lost, fear, growing up – just think of A Midsummer Night's Dream, among many other folktales! Guth’s ever-rotating, terrifying yet wittily playful forest setting is less a dream than a nightmare, where we witness the title character's last love stories as a hallucination before his death.

Reviews of Don Giovanni, K527 directed by Claus Guth

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