By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A new production for the 2010 Festival supported by Handel and Yvonne Evans
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
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Alternatively this production will be revived in the Autumn as part of Glyndebourne on Tour.
Don Giovanni Unmasked
A behind the scenes look at Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne, directed by Jonathan Kent and designed by Paul Brown.
This short feature includes rehearsal and backstage footage, interviews with the production staff and cast as well as a glimpse into the costume, design and technical departments at Glyndebourne.
This production will be filmed as a co-production between Glyndebourne, the BBC and Ideale Audience. Don Giovanni will be broadcast on BBC2 later in the year as part of the BBC opera season
© Glyndebourne Productions 2010. Produced by Karen McCallion, Sam Wilkins and Simon Yapp
Listen to Vladimir Jurowski on Don Giovanni (14 mins)
James Whitbourn interviews conductor Vladimir Jurowski about the 2010 Glyndebourne Festival Production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
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Mozart’s second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies.
For its first new production of the opera in 10 years, Glyndebourne is pleased to welcome back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the conducting is shared between Festival Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski, and the new Music Director of Glyndebourne on Tour, Jakub Hruša.
In the title role we also welcome back the great bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who has appeared in many Glyndebourne productions since joining the Chorus in 1986 – not least in the title role of Le nozze di Figaro at the opening of the new house in 1994. He has sung Don Giovanni to worldwide acclaim in New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Budapest and Prague. Finley is joined by Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo in the 2006 Festival’s Così fan tutte) as Leporello, Kate Royal (the Governess in Jonathan Kent’s 2006 staging of The Turn of the Screw) as Donna Elvira, and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil making her UK opera debut as Donna Anna.
Performance schedule Festival 2010
Key
# = Study Event
* = Pre-performance talk available in the in the Ebert Room.
Creative team
Conductor Vladimir Jurowski / Jakub Hruša (July 31 - August 27)
Director Jonathan Kent
Designer Paul Brown
Lighting Designer Mark Henderson
Movement Director Denni Sayers
Fight Director Alison de Burgh
Cast
Il Commendatore Alastair Miles / Brindley Sherratt (July 18 - 31)
Donna Anna Anna Samuil
Don Ottavio William Burden
Don Giovanni Gerald Finley
Leporello Luca Pisaroni
Donna Elvira Kate Royal
Zerlina Anna Virovlansky
Masetto Guido Loconsolo
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Synopsis
Narrative summary for Don Giovanni
Reviews and Features
A collection of newspaper and online articles about Don Giovanni
Ten Minute Bell
Gerald Finley talks about his long association with Glyndebourne and singing the title role in Don Giovanni
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