Don Giovanni needs women as other men need food and drink. His nostrils twitch at the faintest whispered scent of a passing female; he is consumed by his own driving desire for possession. As the opera begins, he barely pauses between killing his victim’s father with cool ferocity and moving on in search of further conquest.
As Mozart’s gloriously powerful music builds to a climax, Don Giovanni’s earthly victims catch up with him and forces from beyond the grave bring ultimate retribution.
As Mozart’s gloriously powerful music builds to a climax, Don Giovanni’s earthly victims catch up with him and forces from beyond the grave bring ultimate retribution.
Conductor Douglas Boyd
Director Daniel Slater
Designer Leslie Travers
Lighting Designer Bruno Poet
Movement Director Ran Arthur Braun
Garsington Opera Orchestra & Chorus
".... notable for Douglas Boyd’s instinctively Mozartian conducting and the luscious soprano of young Sophie Bevan."
The Times on Le nozze di Figaro 2010
Don Giovanni Grant Doyle
Commendatore
Christophoros Stamboglis
Donna Anna Natasha Jouhl
Don Ottavio Jesús León
Donna Elvira Sophie Bevan
Leporello Joshua Bloom
Masetto Callum Thorpe
Zerlina Mary Bevan
2, 4, 10, 15, 19, 25, 30 June
and 2 July 2012 at 5.50pm
and 2 July 2012 at 5.50pm
Pre-performance talk on Saturday 30 June, 4.15pm
