Don Giovanni / 1987

Live performance from Salzburger Festspiele in 1987. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor. Stage director Michael Hampe. Starring Samuel Ramey and Anna Tomowa-Sintow.

Don Giovanni / 1995

Live from Glyndebourne Festival 1995. Yakov Kreizberg conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Directed for the stage by Deborah Warner.

Don Giovanni / 2008

DON GIOVANNI is one of the timeless classics of all opera. Mozart’s music, and the words of his great collaborator Da Ponte, are brought to life in Francesca Zambello’s engrossing production with its rich and colourful designs by Maria Bjornson. The music is memorable, dramatic and enjoyable: from the seductive solo voices of the famous ‘La ci darem la mano’ to the fabulous ensemble as Don Giovanni’s infatuated conquests, vengeful victims and their outraged relatives join forces for justice. And retribution does finally come to Don Giovanni, a serial womanizer and a murderer, with the searing flames of Hell ready to engulf him. Simon Keenlyside heads the outstanding cast at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House, conducted by renowned Mozart expert Charles Mackerras.

Don Giovanni / 1987

Live from Teatro alla Scala 1987.

Don Giovanni / 1955

Don Giovanni / 1977

Since its debut in 1934 the Glyndebourne Festival has put a focus on Mozart operas and developed a great competence in staging them. Mozart s operas seem to be made for the small but fine opera house in Glyndebourne and it's not surprising that the 1977 Don Giovanni, one of Mozart's great masterpieces, was a huge success. This production is conducted by Bernard Haitink, who holds the opinion, that no other composer had more opera in his blood than Mozart. It has been proven, for example, that Mozart had no overture for Don Giovanni until the evening before the premiere in Prague and wrote it down in just one night. Like the premiere's success of the opera in Prague in 1787 the Glyndebourne's version staged by Peter Hall was praised by audience and critics alike: We witness a lively and wide-awake ensemble piece that has easily survived all these decades, and still manages to teach many directors the art of playing theatre.

Don Giovanni / 2015

"This is Vienna State Opera live at home". June 2015.

Don Giovanni / 2017

Live performance at Teatro La Fenice in 2017.

Don Giovanni / 1991

Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovanni. He relies on Thomas Allen’s tough Don to give the work much of its dark menace and on Holle’s terrifying Commendatore to provide the moral outrage – his job is to keep things moving, and he does. The exteriors – blank city spaces reminiscent of the paintings of Giorgio De Chirico – and moodily claustrophobic interiors mirror effectively the anguish of the orphaned Anna and the abandoned Elvira; this is a performance in which the two women victims of the Don function effectively as correctives to his libertine charm. Andrea Rost as Zerlina brings real delicacy to her role, reminding us that “La ci darem la mano” is a duet about her flirtation with Don Giovanni and not just a famous stand-alone moment. This is an admirable presentation of a fine performance.

Don Giovanni / 1967

Don Giovanni è un aitante galantuomo cui le donne non sanno resistere; altrettanta fortuna il nostro ha nel sopraffare i suoi contendenti di sesso maschile. Fra questi c’è però un commendatore, da lui ucciso in duello, che ritorna a tormentarlo sotto forma di statua.

Don Giovanni /

Qual è il fuoco che spinge Don Giovanni a sedurre, sottomettere e conquistare le donne una ad una, con la febbre e la freddezza del predatore che afferra la sua preda, e a perseguire attraverso di esse un oscuro obiettivo che non riesce mai a raggiungere fino in fondo? Per la sua seconda collaborazione con Da Ponte, Mozart marchiò profondamente la storia dell'opera lirica imponendosi per sempre nella cultura europea. Kierkegaard ci invitava ad ascoltare in questo Dissoluto punito " il bisbiglio della tentazione, il turbine della seduzione, il silenzio dell'istante " . Il ciclo Mozart-Da Ponte prosegue con Don Giovanni affidato a Ivo Van Hove. Abituato ad interrogare il senso politico delle opere, il regista esegue, dopo Boris Godunov, la sua seconda Regia per l'Opéra de Paris. L'Opéra de Paris e FRA Cinéma si uniscono alla Festa della musica proponendo quest'opera emblematica!

Don Giovanni / 2015

Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf pulls off a brilliant coup with the high aesthetics of his intrigue, a masterful parody of the "everything is possible" of our time - flanked by an ensemble of exquisite vocal talents.

Don Giovanni / 2021

The insatiable Don Giovanni is not picky: anyone will do, from Donna Elvira to her maid and the bride at a country wedding. But when one of his conquests ends in murder, he sets off a chain of events that takes him forever closer to his bitter fate. For the first time, Prague’s Estates Theatre, where Don Giovanni premiered some 230 years ago, calls on a director from overseas to stage Mozart's opera. Will Alexander Mørk-Eidem’s new production break with its long tradition of the famous rake’s last day? Is his Giovanni an incorrigible slave to his instincts? Is he a provocateur? Or a mere catalyst around whom Mozart thoroughly depicts the constantly changing universe of female emotions?

Don Giovanni / 2002

Live performance at Théâtre de l’Archevêché du Festival d’art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence 2002. Daniel Harding conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Choeur de l'Académie Européenne de Musique. Directed for stage by Peter Brook.

Don Giovanni / 2018

Don Giovanni / 1970

Spectacular Italian comedy-drama directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons. The film is loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan", from the collection Les Diaboliques. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.

Don Giovanni / 1955

DON GIOVANNI, a young, arrogant, sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone else in the cast, until he encounters something he cannot kill, beat up, dodge, or outwit. This legendary production starring Cesare Siepi in the title role with Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting was filmed in Salzburg’s open-air Felsenreitschule theatre during the 1954 Salzburg Festival. Although the production is clearly dated, it remains a must-see for lovers of the opera, both as a historical document of a vintage, all-star production and simply as an excellent way to experience Mozart’s masterpiece.

Don Giovanni in Sicilia / 1977

L’apatica esistenza del quarantenne catanese Giovanni Percolla viene scossa soltanto dal matrimonio con la marchesina Ninetta e dal trasferimento a Milano, anche se all’uomo basterà un breve ritorno in Sicilia per ritrovare tutta l’indolenza della sua filosofia di vita.

L'ultima beffa di Don Giovanni / 1937

Una beffa che gli attori della Comédie Française giocano al collega inglese Garrick (il più grande interprete shakespeariano del diciottesimo secolo, realmente esistito) rischia di mandare a carte quarantotto la sua bella storia d'amore con una nobile damigella. Per fortuna, l'inglese troverà il modo di chiarire ogni cosa con l'amante.

Don Giovanni nel pollaio / 1963

A horny hipster rooster, attracted to the hens in Foghorn Leghorn's barnyard, disguises himself as a baby foundling on Foghorn's doorstep. Foghorn adopts the girl-crazy rooster as his son, giving him access to all the chickens on the farm!