Don Giovanni
An exciting young cast appears in our first new Don Giovanni in over a decade – transferring straight from the Festival.
About the opera
When a seduction goes wrong and lust leads to murder, he finds himself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse, as both his sins and his pursuers finally threaten to catch up with him.
Mozart’s psychological thriller exposes human instinct in all its messy urgency and tenderness. Breathless from its first moments to its fiery climax, the composer’s taut and dramatic score revels in contrasts. Beauty collides with violence, wit with darkness – a tangled world in which nothing and no one is quite as it seems.
Smart, subversive and just a little bit playful, Mariame Clément’s new staging gets under the skin of this classic opera and its elusive anti-hero, uncovering its tensions and deftly shifting perspectives.
This is opera to get the pulse racing, an exhilarating and unsettling drama about men, women and the human cost of a life lived outside the lines.
Audio description and touch tours: for audience members with hearing and/or visual impairments, there will be a performance with pre-recorded audio description on 24 November with a touch tour available pre performance. Find out more.
Creative team
Conductor
Stephanie Childress
Director
Mariame Clément
Designer
Julia Hansen
Lighting Designer
Bernd Purkrabek
Projection Designer
Étienne Guiol
Fight Director
Keith Wallis
The Glyndebourne Sinfonia
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Cast includes
Don Giovanni
Andrei Bondarenko
Donna Anna
Kseniia Proshina
Don Ottavio
Nico Darmanin
Donna Elvira
Alexandra Lowe
Leporello
Sam Carl
Zerlina
Charlotte Bowden
Masetto
Michael Ronan
The Commendatore
Ivo Stanchev
Photos
Photographer: Monika Rittershaus
Illustration © Katie Ponder
