Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don Giovanni

Sep 24 - Nov 22

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Mozart’s classic, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in his Met role debut as the licentious Don. Ivo van Hove’s “magnificent” (Financial Times) production also features sopranos Federica Lombardi, Janai Brugger, and Hera Hyesang Park as Don Giovanni’s three conquests, with tenor Ben Bliss and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Don Ottavio and Leporello. A second sensational cast then takes the stage for additional performances, led by Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni.

Production a gift of Rolex

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund, Marina Kellen French, Linda Hirshman, the Estate of Michael L. Tapper, M.D., and an anonymous donor

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Sung In

Italian

Met Titles In

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian

Estimated Run Time

3 hrs 20 mins

  • House Opens

  • Act I

    90 mins

  • Intermission

    30 mins

  • Act II

    80 mins

  • Opera Ends

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Don Giovanni

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).

PRODUCTION

Ivo van Hove

Set and Lighting Designer

Jan Versweyveld

Costume Designer

An D’Huys

Projection Designer

Christopher Ash

Choreographer

Sara Erde

Headshot of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Setting

Don Giovanni

The city of Seville in southern Spain, where the legend of Don Juan plays out, was already famous in Mozart’s time as a mythical world of winding streets, hotblooded young men, and exotically beautiful women sequestered behind latticed windows, or “jalousies” (which gave us our English word “jealousy”). This season’s new production by Ivo van Hove places the action in a contemporary setting that underlines the timelessness of the story.

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.

Don Giovanni