Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

New Teatro alla Scala Production

From 7 December 2011 to 14 January 2012

Running Time: 3 hours 15 minutes

Sung in Italian with electronic libretto in Italian, English

NOTES ON THE PERFORMANCES

È aperto a tutti quanti! Viva la libertà!”

“My house is open to everyone! Long live liberty!” (End of Act I)

In Mozart’s opera, the eternal myth that is Don Giovanni champions Eros as a driving force for freedom, fighting for his own ideals to the point of defying fate. In keeping with this idea, Robert Carsen’s staging of Don Giovanni pays tribute to La Scala, in his first production specifically for the opera house.

Daniel Barenboim conducts a stellar cast that includes Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Barbara Frittoli (Donna Elvira), Bryn Terfel (Leporello) and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (alternating in the roles of Don Giovanni and Leporello).

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim/Karl Heinz Steffens (January 2012)

Staging: Robert Carsen

Sets: Michael Levine

Costumes: Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lights: Robert Carsen and Peter Van Praet

Choreography: Philippe Giraudeau

Cast:

Don Giovanni Peter Mattei (7, 10, 13, 23, 28 December; 4, 8, 12, 14 January)

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (16, 20 December) 

Il CommendatoreKwangchul Youn (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 28 December)

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (4, 8, 12, 14 January) 

Donna Anna Anna Netrebko (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23 December)

Tamar Iveri (28 December; 4, 8, 12, 14 January) 

Don Ottavio Giuseppe Filianoti (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 28 December)

John Osborn (4, 8, 12, 14 January) 

Donna ElviraBarbara Frittoli (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 28 December)

Maria Agresta (4, 8, 12, 14 January)

Leporello Bryn Terfel (7, 10, 13, 16, 20 December)

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (23, 28 December; 4, 8, 12, 14 January) 

Zerlina Anna Prohaska (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 28 December)

Ekaterina Sadovnikova (4, 8, 12, 14 January) 

MasettoŠtefan Kocán (7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 28 December)

Kostas Smoriginas (4, 8, 12, 14 January)