Organization

Singer

Baritone

Roman Bobrov

Don Giovanni

Bass

Alexander Markeev

Commendatore

Soprano

Natalia Ritter

Donna Anna

Tenor

Zahar Kovalev

Don Ottavio

Ekaterina Semenova

Donna Elvira

Alexey Prokopyev

Leporello

Kirill Filin

Masetto

Ekaterina Ferzba

Zerlina

Stage director

Boris Pokrovsky

Lighting designer

Vladimir Ivakin

Costume designer

Rafael Volsky

Set designer

Viktor Volsky

Choreographer

Lilia Talankina

Chorus master

Alexey Vereshchagin

Conductor

Marianna Asvoynova

Alexander Polkovnikov

Roman Shevchuk

Alexey Smirnov

Tatiana Koninskaya

Alexey Sulimov

Alexandra Nanoshkina

David Tselauri

Alexander Kolesnikov

Anna Bauman

Tatiana Fedotova

Alexander Chernov

Bolshoi Theatre

Italian

Moscow

Russia

Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theater

Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage

Don Giovanni Mozart, W. A.

Public

Private

Russian

Approved

About the performance
Don Giovanni, the greatest opera of all time according to Wagner, Rossini and Gounod, was extremely successful in Prague (the premiere was held on the 29th of October 1787), but in Vienna received a relatively cool reception. According to Kaiser Joseph II, the music by Mozart was “indeed overly complicated for singing”. One of the critics of the 1780s expressed a similar, far from singular, opinion the following way: “The beauty, grandeur and nobility of this music will always be no more than a lot for the chosen. This music is unfit for the ears of the majority: it just tickles the ear leaving the heart unsatisfied”.

In the 18th century, the plot about the Spanish grandee Don Giovanni was probably the most popular. The love affairs and adventures found a great response in the spirit of the century, that doubted and could laugh at anything. Numerous “dongiovannies” had been present on various European stages before, appearing as servant Harlequin in the Italian commedia dell'arte, as Hans Wurst in Germany and Austria… Audiences observed how Don Giovanni was fried in a hellish frying pan for his lecherous feats not without a gloating satisfaction.

English

Don Giovanni by Mozart, From (2021/2022), Directed by Boris Pokrovsky,, Conductor Alexey Vereshchagin, Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, Russia

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