This Don Juan terrifies but attracts, subjugates in desire as in terror ... Mozart sublimates the adventures of one of the most famous seducers of classical literature. Don Giovanni's appetites are limitless: a woman-eater, this powerful and casual lord defies both morality and established order, mocking religion, persifing in cemeteries, and blaspheming God himself at the fatal hour. Around him, we are busy, we get irritated, we succumb ... before returning to the ordinary of his daily life. The work is undoubtedly the most dramatic of the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy. Yet, the composer subtitle dramma giocoso, joyful drama: for there is laughter in this crazy race of senses. Because Don Giovanni incarnates all the transgressions, all the desires: he terrifies but attracts, subjugates and terrifies. A fatal attraction exercised by a world without God, a believer without repentance, it symbolizes both evil and pleasure and lends itself to all analyzes: hardly has a solution been sketched that is contradicted by the following reply, By an accent of the orchestra, an inflection of a singer... To each to find his Don Giovanni.
Dramma giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra de Lyon
Artistic team
Conductor | Stefano Montanari
Stage Director | David Marton
Playwright | Anna Heesen
Set Designer | Christian Friedländer
Costume Designer | Pola Kardum
Lighting Designer | Henning Streck
Sound Designer | Daniel Dorsch
Cast
Don Ottavio | Julien Behr
Donna Elvira | Antoinette Dennefeld
Don Giovanni | Philippe Sly
Donna Anna | Eleonora Buratto
Leporello | Kyle Ketelsen
Masetto | Piotr Micinski
Zerlina | Yuka Yanagihara ;