Organization

Stage director

Melissa Morris

Conductor

Jennifer Tung

Pianist

Ivan Jovanovic

Singer

Baritone

Michael Robert-Broder

Don Giovanni

Bass

John Holland

Leporello

Soprano

Lauren Estey

Donna Anna

Paulina Swierczek

Donna Elvira

Tenor

Alexander Cappellazzo

Don Ottavio

Thera Barclay

Zerlina

Austin Larusson

Masetto

Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega

Commendatore

Assistant Conductor

Suzanne Yeo

Toronto City Opera

Italian

Toronto

Canada

Al Green Theatre

Public

English

Approved

Donna Anna (Lauren Estey) is in despair after the callous murder of her father. Her fiancée Don Ottavio (Alexander Cappellazzo) tries his best to console her.

Don Giovanni Mozart

Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

“The opera of all operas.” (E.T.A. Hoffmann)

 

The eminent adaptation of the figure of Don Juan has received supreme praise from so many iconic minds since its advent in 1787 amid a revolutionary time. Mozart and librettist da Ponte managed to present a new kind of philosophical opera with political implications – and with a titular character who tests the boundaries of the ideas of the time to the extreme. Those ideas have not gone away.

 

Don Giovanni is a character that is ripe for psychological interpretation regarding human motivation, as are all the other characters as they react to him. His individualistic defiance against limitations directly links to the Greek hero breaking through to new possibilities of the human condition and the birth of Tragedy.

 

And that makes him as alluring to his conquests as Mozart’s best music.

 

“The three most beautiful things that God has made are the sea, Hamlet and Mozart's Don Giovanni” (Gustave Flaubert)

Don Giovanni by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by Melissa Morris,, Conductor Jennifer Tung, Al Green Theatre, Toronto, Canada

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