Don Giovanni 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Robert Gleadow - Arianna Vendittelli - Florie Valiquette
Riccardo Novaro - Jean-Gabriel Saint Martin - Enguerrand de Hys
Éléonore Pancrazi - Nicolas Certenais

Ballet, Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles
Gaétan Jarry, conductor
Marshall Pynkoski, stage director
Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, choreography
Roland Fontaine, sets

Don Giovanni was commissioned by the Prague Opera immediately after the success of The Marriage of Figaro : Mozart and Da Ponte chose a subject that had triumphed a few weeks earlier in Venice, Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni. Taking up the theme of Le Trompeur de Séville (The Deceiver of Seville), which had already been popular in the theater since the mid-17th century, Da Ponte focused on the libertine character of Don Juan, no doubt inspired by his famous friend Casanova. The result is dazzling, never leaving the spectator the slightest respite between murders, scenes of seduction, cunning and fantastic apparitions: here is a grand spectacle served by extraordinary music, an absolute masterpiece, to which Prague gave an exceptional triumph. Marshall Pynkoski sweeps the characters into a dramatic whirlwind dressed in Christian Lacroix fantasies, Robert Gleadow finally takes on the role of Don Giovanni, and Gaétan Jarry makes the Royal Opera Orchestra shine. 

Show filmed on November 17th and 18th 2023 at the Royal Opera of the Château de Versailles by WAHOO Productions.

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