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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | Don Giovanni | Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Hungarian State Opera | ||
Gábor Hontvári | Conductor | |
Claus Guth | Director | |
Christian Schmidt | Set Designer, Costume Designer | |
Olaf Winter | Lighting Designer | |
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra | ||
Hungarian State Opera Chorus | ||
Ronny Dietrich | Dramaturgy | |
Ulrike Zimmermann-Mattar | Choreography | |
Marion Benagès | Choreography | |
Károly Szemerédy | Baritone | Don Giovanni |
Zsolt Haja | Baritone | Don Giovanni |
Gabriella Balga | Mezzo-soprano | Donna Anna |
Orsolya Sáfár | Soprano | Donna Anna |
Mária Celeng | Soprano | Donna Elvira |
Lilla Horti | Soprano | Donna Elvira |
Krisztián Cser | Bass | Leporello |
Csaba Sándor | Bass-baritone | Leporello |
Eszter Zemlényi | Soprano | Zerlina |
Anija Lombard | Soprano | Zerlina |
István Rácz | Bass | The Commendatore |
Istvan Horvath | Tenor | Don Ottavio |
Artúr Szeleczki | Tenor | Don Ottavio |
Bence Pataki | Bass | Masetto |
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.