Organization

Singer

Bass

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Commendatore

Stage director

Ivo van Hove

Lighting designer

Jan Versweyveld

Costume designer

An D'Huys

Set designer

Video designer

Christopher Ash

Conductor

Nathalie Stutzmann

Choreographer

Sara Erde

Soprano

Federica Lombardi

Donna Anna

Ana María Martínez

Donna Elvira

Tenor

Ben Bliss

Don Ottavio

Ying Fang

Zerlina

Baritone

Peter Mattei

Don Giovanni

Adam Plachetka

Leporello

Alfred Walker

Masetto

Dmitry Belosselskiy

Kyle Albertson

Andrea Carroll

Opéra National de Paris

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Italian

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Don Giovanni Mozart

Public

English

German

Spanish

Approved

[TRAILER] DON GIOVANNI by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris


Production a gift of Rolex
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Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund
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World premiere: National Theater (now Estates Theater), Prague, 1787. Aided by his ingenious librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart approached his operatic retelling of the Don Juan myth from a point of view that is neither tragic nor entirely comic, but rather lighthearted, urbane, and ironic. We follow the title character and his earthy comic sidekick, Leporello, through a series of encounters that begins with a fatal duel, moves back and forth between the humorous and the sentimental, and ends with the protagonist being dragged down to hell.


Creators 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) was the son of a Salzburg court musician who exhibited him as a musical prodigy throughout Europe. His achievements in opera, in terms of beauty, vocal challenge, and dramatic insight, remain unsurpassed. Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), who led an adventurous life in Venice and Vienna, also collaborated with Mozart on Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte. He later emigrated to America, where he served as the first professor of Italian at New York’s Columbia College (now University).

Music
Mozart’s score teems with the elegance and grace that marks his entire output, which is evident from the first measures of the ravishing overture. This combination of musical refinement and extraordinary dramatic expression makes Don Giovanni one of the longest enduring and universally beloved works in the standard repertoire.

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