Unaware that his secret has been exposed, Giovanni heads back to his house where all the wedding guests have been invited to feast and celebrate. Once again, she asks Ottavio to avenge her. Elvira warns them off, but as Giovanni tries to explain away her outburst as madness, Anna recognises his voice and realises the truth. Anna and Ottavio catch sight of their friend Giovanni and approach, asking for his help in apprehending Anna’s unknown attacker. But even as he tries his charm on Zerlina, Elvira again appears and warns the young girl off. Slipping away, he leaves Leporello to explain to Elvira that she is neither the first nor the last of his many conquests.įrustrated in a would-be seduction, Giovanni comes across a young couple – Masetto and Zerlina – celebrating their wedding day. Keen to seize the advantage he makes advances, only to discover that she is none other than Donna Elvira, who he recently seduced and abandoned after claiming her as his wife. On seeing her dead father, Anna faints and is comforted by her fiancé Don Ottavio, who swears to avenge her father’s death.Įarly the next morning, Giovanni finds himself drawn to a mysterious beauty abandoned by her lover. Giovanni flees before he can be recognised, with Leporello in tow. Initially reluctant to fight the old man, Giovanni agrees and the Commendatore is killed. Their struggle summons her father the Commendatore, who immediately challenges his daughter’s assailant to a duel. But Leporello’s fantasies of trading drudgery for the life of a nobleman are suddenly interrupted.Ī masked Giovanni rushes out, pursued by Donna Anna, desperate to prevent her attacker’s escape. ![]() Leporello, Don Giovanni’s faithful servant, keeps watch while his master pursues his latest conquest. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. Rising-star conductor Evan Rogister makes his Festival debut.Ī new production for Festival 2023. Mariame Clément directs Glyndebourne’s first new Don Giovanni in over a decade. ![]() At the centre of it all is the Don himself, a musical cipher as charismatic as he is unknowable. A score of singular power drives the action forwards, seducing its listeners with serenades and love-songs, richly layered ensembles and intricate finales. Shakespearean in its breadth of emotion, Don Giovanni slips from laughter and physical farce to brutal psychodrama in a second, a dramatic whirlpool whose inexorable tug pulls both its hero and audience down further and further towards its explosive conclusion. The Don Juan legend takes breathless and exhilarating form in Mozart’s tragicomedy – a work ETA Hoffmann once called ‘The opera of all operas’. ![]() But when a seduction goes horribly wrong, he finally finds himself in a situation he cannot charm his way out of. Womanising aristocrat Don Giovanni lives a life of debauchery and pleasure, seducing and abandoning women wherever he goes.
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