The “Vanity Fair” of the opera house, “Don Giovanni” unearths no heroes in its three-hour playing time. “This production of DON GIOVANNI has heat, passion and total commitment from everyone involved under the dynamic, dramatic direction of conductor Metodi Matakiev. The Dion, Lithuanian baritone Vytautas Juozapaitis, is a highly physical, Douglas Fairbanks/Errol Flynn kind of Don… tall, dark, and quite handsome. This is one hot opera you won’t want to miss.
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787. Da Ponte’s libretto was billed like many of its time as dramma giocoso, a term that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an “opera buffa”. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.
As a staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it appears as number seven on the Operabase list of the mostperformed operas worldwide. It has also proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers.
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