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Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527

Overture

I: "Notte e giorno a faticar"

I: "Leporello, dove sei?"

I: "Ah del padre in periglio"

I: "Ma qual mai s’offre, oh Dei… Fuggi, crudele, fuggi!"

I: "Orsù, spicciati presto"

I: "Ah, chi mi dice mai"

I: "Chi è là?"

I: "Madamina"

I: "In questa forma"

I: "Giovinette che fate all'amore"

I: "Manco male è partita"

I: "Ho capito, signor sì!"

I: "Alfin siam liberati"

I: "Fermati, scellerato!"

I: "Ah! fuggi il traditor!"

I: "Mi par ch'oggi il demonio"

I: "Non ti fidar, o misera"

I: "Povera sventurata!"

I: "Don Ottavio, son morta!"

I: "Come mai creder deggio"

I: "Dalla sua pace"

I: "Io deggio ad ogni patto"

I: "Finch'han dal vino"

I: "Masetto, senti un po'"

I: "Guarda un po'"

I: "Presto, presto, pria ch'ei venga"

I: "Tra quest'abori celata"

I: "Bisogna aver coraggio"

I: "Protegga il giusto cielo..."

I: "Riposate, vezzose ragazze"

I: "Venite pur avanti"

I: "Ecco il birbo che t'ha offesa!"

I: "Trema, trema o scellerato!"

II: "Eh via, buffone, non me seccar!"

II: "Leporello! ...Signore?"

II: "Ah taci, ingiusto core!"

II: "Amico, che ti par?"

II: "Metà di voi qua vadano"

II: "Zitto, lascia che i senta"

II: "Vedrai, carino"

II: "Di molte faci il lume"

II: "Sola, sola in buio loco"

II: "Mille torbidi pensieri"

II: "Ah, pietà, signori miei!"

II: "Ferma, perfido, ferma!"

II: "In quali eccessi"

II: "Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata"

II: "Ah, ah, ah, questa è buona"

II: "O statua gentilissima"

II: "Calmatevi, idol mio!"

II: "Non mi dir, bell'idol mio"

II: "Già la mensa è preparata"

II: "L'ultima prova dell'amor mio"

II: "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco"

II: "Ah dov'è il perfido?"

II: "Questo è il fin"

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Jean-François Sivadier (stage director), Jérémie Rhorer (conductor) – With Philippe Sly (Don Giovanni), Nahuel di Pierro (Leporello), Eleonora Buratto (Donna Anna)

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Cast

Jean-François Sivadier — Stage director

Alexandre de Dardel — Set designer

Virginie Gervaise — Costume designer

Philippe Berthomé — Lighting designer

Cécile Kretschmar — Make-up artist

Véronique Timsit — Associate Stage Director

Nicholas Bootiman — Music assistant

Program notes

Considered by some to be the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni was the second product of an incredibly fruitful collaboration between two geniuses: the legendary W.A. Mozart and the talented Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Based on Molière's Don Juan, the two-act dramma giocoso premiered in October 1787 at Prague's state theater to rave reviews. The 2017 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence brought Mozart's fabulously devious work to the stage once more in a production by stage director Jean-François Sivadie. Starring Philippe Sly (Don Giovanni), Nahuel di Pierro (Leporello), and Eleonora Buratto (Donna Anna), the excellent performance featured the acclaimed maestro Jérémie Rhorer at the head of the period instrument ensemble Le Cercle de l'Harmonie.

With the help of his loyal servant Leporello, Don Giovanni leads a villainous life devoted to the disreputable pleasure of seducing and abandoning young women. One evening, he tries his luck with Donna Anna, but her father, Il Commendatore, intervenes, leading to a duel that ends with Don Giovanni killing him. Brushing off the incident, Don Giovanni continues on his merry way, trying to seduce the young bride Zerlina on her wedding day. Donna Elvira—a former conquest still in love with the Don—arrives on the scene and stops him. Escaping his would-be victims, Don Giovanni orders Leporello to switch identities with him. In Act II, Don Giovanni visits a cemetery. Suddenly a statue comes to life and warns him to leave the dead in peace. Don Giovanni invites the statue to his house for dinner, not realizing the statue to be none other than Il Commendatore. That evening, the statue grabs Don Giovanni and demands that he repent, but he refuses. In the ultimate punishment, Don Giovanni is sent to hell in flames.

Photo: Don Giovanni, Mozart – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2017 ©Pascal Victor/artcompress

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