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Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527

Overture

I: "Notte e giorno a faticar"

I: "Non sperar, se non m'uccidi"

I: "Ah, soccorso! Son tradito!"

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: "Giovinette che fate all'amore"

I: "Manco male è partita"

I: "Ho capito, signor sì!"

I: "Alfin siam liberati"

I: "Là ci darem la mano"

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: "Or sai chi l'onore"

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: "Batti, batti, o bel masetto"

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!"

Act II

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

II: "Leporello! ...Signore?"

II: "Ah taci, ingiusto core!"

II: "Amico, che ti par?"

II: "Deh vieni alla finestra"

II: "V'è gente alla finestra"

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: "Dunque quello sei tu"

II: "Ah, pietà, signori miei!"

II: "Ferma, perfido, ferma!"

II: "Il mio tesoro"

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: "Che grido è questo mai?"

II: "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco"

II: "Da qual temore insolito"

II: "Ah dov'è il perfido?"

II: "Resti dunque quel birbon"

II: "Questo è il fin"

Don Giovanni, a film by Joseph Losey after Mozart's opera

With Ruggero Raimondi, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, José van Dam...

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Cast

Joseph Losey — Adaptation

Patricia Losey — Adaptation

Frantz Salieri — Adaptation

Alexandre Trauner — Scenography

Ruggero Raimondi — Don Giovanni

John Macurdy — Il Commendatore

Edda Moser — Donna Anna

Program notes

Watch Joseph Losey's remarkable adaptation of one of Mozart's most famous operas: Don Giovanni. This marvelous production created in 1979 recounts the legend of Don Juan, the libertine seducer.

Don Giovanni is the result of Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. It draws its inspiration from Molière's Don Juan, a play that Mozart knew almost by heart. As Mozart said it himself, it is an opera buffa. Don Giovanni was ordered to Mozart by the Teatro di Praga which had just hosted the successful Le Nozze di Figaro. Both opera were played by the same company: the company Bondini. Don Giovanni was premiered in 1787. Legend has it that the overture had been composed by Mozart the night before the premiere in only three hours.

Plot

This opera deals with the libertine seducer Don Giovanni, who, helped by his assistant Leporello, seduces and abandones young women. As he tries to seduce Donna Anna, her father, Il Commendatore, interposes. Don Giovanni kills him in a duel. Nonetheless, he continues his conquests and tries to seduce a new girl, Zerlina, who is about to marry Masetto. Don Giovanni is pursued by Donna Elvira, whom he neglected (she still has feelings for him). In an attempt to escape his victims, he requires Leporello to exchange their identity. In the second act, Don Giovanni is in a cemetery at night when a voice from a statue asks him to leave the dead in peace. He invites the statue to dinner. The statue, which is in fact Il Commendatore, shows up at Don Giovanni's. Grabbing the hand of Don Giovanni, the statue asks him to repent. Don Giovanni refuses and is engulfed in the flames of hell.

I believe that Don Giovanni is a piece of rebellion, if not revolution... (Joseph Losey)

The film

Joseph Losey's film adaptation combines Mozart's original work with his own reading of the opera. It is an encounter of two imaginary worlds. The first world is personal, it presents Joseph Losey's own image of the character, while the second one is universal: the fruit of Western music. Don Giovanni is played and sung in Italian, the libretto's original language. The cast is international, composed of artists of many countries, and starring such great names as Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Teresa Berganza, Edda Moser and José van Dam. The film is played in the decor of the Palladio villas near Vicenza, monumental constructions of the 16th century which are both strict and baroque. Losey banishes the limits of the stage and favors an authentic decor.

We are creating a new form. A real film, set in real locations with people acting out a real story which is told cinematically and in words as well as in music... (Joseph Losey)

A closer look: featured composers

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Further listening: featured works

Don Giovanni, K. 527

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)

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