Organization

Singer

Baritone

Thomas Allen

Don Giovanni

Soprano

Carolyn James

Donna Anna

Carol Vaness

Donna Elvira

Bass

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Leporello

Tenor

Kjell Magnus Sandve

Don Ottavio

Andrea Rost

Zerlina

Reinhard Dorn

Masetto

Matthias Hölle

Commendatore

Conductor

James Conlon

Set designer

Michael Hampe

Stage director

Costume designer

Carlo Diappi

Oper Köln

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CHORUS OF THE COLOGNE OPERA

Orchestra

Gürzenich - Orchester Köln

Italian

Cologne

Germany

Kammeroper

Mozart - Don Giovanni, Act I (with Thomas Allen & Carolyn James)

Mozart - Don Giovanni, Act II (with Thomas Allen & Carolyn James)

Don Giovanni Mozart

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Mozart's "Don Giovanni", "the opera of all operas", as E.T.A. Hoffmann once called it, is a work with many meanings. The inexhaustible array of interpretative possibilities represent a challenge to anyone who approaches this monumental work. Michael Hampe, who staged this new production at the Cologne Opera, concentrated his interpretations on two main points of emphasis. On the one hand, Don Giovanni appears "as the embodiment of absolute, irresistible, tempestuous life force, whom no borders can hold and who only finds his end in the metaphysical power of death", and on the other hand, "as a rebel against human order, against law and mortality, as the archetype of the social outside". To realize this ambitious project, Hampe was able to draw on a cast of first-rate soloists available anywhere. Thomas Allen is consiedered one of the most prominent Don Giovannis of our time. His fellow-artists are all on the same high musical and theatrical level: Ferruccio Furlanetto as Leporello, Matthias Hölle as the Commendatore and Reinhard Dorn as Masetto. The American soprano, Carol Vaness, the Donna Anna, is also on of the top Mozart interpreters of our time. James Conlon, on the podium of Cologne's Gürzenich Orchestra provides the proper musical inspiration for this intriguing performance.

Don Giovanni by Mozart, From (1991/1991), Directed by Michael Hampe,, Conductor James Conlon, Kammeroper, Cologne, Germany

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