Don Giovanni
From: Wednesday, 17th October 2012
To: Saturday, 17 November 2012
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Synopsis
Written shortly after The Marriage of Figaro. Based on the famous legend of Don Juan the master seducer from whom no woman can be considered safe. Don Giovanni pursues, seduces, rapes and murders and in the climax is pulled to hell by a stone statue of one of his victims come to life - he remains unrepentant. His servant Leporello witnesses all his masters wrongs. There is also a rarely performed opera of the same name (and story) by Giuseppe Gazzaniga which was first performed in 1786, eight months before Mozart's version.
Our Review:
18 October 2012
A wonderful thing, the human subconscious. Mine has the happy knack of obliterating ugly memories from the past; but, for some reason, in the case of Rufus Norris’s 2010 hatchet job on Don Giovanni it’s made a howling, knuckle-gnawing exception. I still bear the scars of its awfulness.
This production became a byword for operatic inanity and an encapsulation of English National Opera’s artistic malaise at the time. Now, in what amounts to an expensive middle-finger by the company to critical (and public?) opinion, it has returned; but in a form so heavily doctored by Norris that what was once a nightmare is now little more than a weird dream, inoffensive and quickly forgotten in the cold light of day.
It’s better than it was, then, but still no cigar. We’ve lost the Don’s ridiculous skirt, all but one of the Jesus T-shirts, all but the feet of Don Ottavio’s striptease and – praise be – all t...
Cast
Iain Paterson (Don Giovanni)
Darren Jeffery (Leporello)
Katherine Broderick (Donna Anna)
Ben Johnson (Don Ottavio)
Matthew Best (Commendatore)
Sarah Tynan (Zerlina)
John Molloy (Masetto)
Rebbeca Evans (Donna Elvira - Oct 17-Nov 6)
Sarah Redgwick (Donna Elvira Nov 10-17)
Creative
Mozart (Music)
Da Ponte (Lyrics)
English National Opera (Producer)
Edward Gardner (Oct 17-Nov 6) (Conductor)
James Burton (Nov 10-17) (Conductor)
Rufus Norris (Director)
Ian MacNeil (Design)
Nicky Gillibrand (Costume)
Paul Anderson (Lighting)
Jonathan Lunn (Choreographer)
Finn Ross (video) (Design)
Jeremy Sams (Translation)
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