Ildebrando D'Arcangelo - DVD & Blu-ray videos

Set Design by Nicola Rubertelli & Costume Design by Zaira De Vicentiis.

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira. De Simone succeeds in sticking to the fl ow of the plot and to the music, in which the soloists and Riccardo Muti’s state opera orchestra have a crucial part. Muti spiritedly conducts with a sense for style and gives the singers room to shine. In the baroque ambiance of the theatre on the river Wien, we experience a “Don Giovanni“ in a unique unity of theatrical pretence and top-rate musical performance.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo

DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC

Picture Format: 16:9

Running Time: 173 mins

FSK: 0

Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, ES, IT

Region Code: 0

The New Production from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden filmed in high definition.

‘Two dazzling stars’ The Telegraph

‘Physical and sexy’ London Evening Standard

‘Kaufmann and Antonacci are that rare breed: superb singers who can also act with subtlety and passion’ The Guardian

With Anna Caterina Antonacci and Jonas Kaufmann bringing rare erotic intensity to the drama of Carmen and Don Jose, this new Royal Opera production is a darkly passionate reading of one of the world's favourite operas.

Under the baton of Music Director Antonio Pappano, Bizet's irresistible score drives the tragedy forward - powering a landmark staging of a musical masterpiece.

Menus: English . Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese.

Booklet notes in English, French, German

The New Production from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Filmed in HD

“Two dazzling stars” (Daily Telegraph)

"Physical and sexy" (Evening Standard)

Kaufmann and Antonacci are that rare breed: superb singers who can also act with subtlety and passion (The Guardian)

With Anna Caterina Antonacci and Jonas Kaufmann bringing rare erotic intensity to the drama of Carmen and Don Jose, this new Royal Opera production is a darkly passionate reading of one of the world's favourite operas. Under the baton of Music Director Antonio Pappano, Bizet's irresistible score drives the tragedy forward - powering a landmark staging of a musical masterpiece. Jonas Kaufmann smoulders as Don Jose in this acclaimed production recorded at the Royal Opera House, London in 2007.

Claus Guth (staging)

Claus Guth’s celebrated Mozart-Da Ponte opera trilogy at the Salzburg Festival for the first time in one DVD box set!

Director Claus Guth’s widely acclaimed productions of the trilogy consolidates Guth’s international reputation as one of the most sought-afterstage directors of our time. Among his other major successes are Der fliegende Holländer in Bayreuth and Luisa Miller at the Bavarian State Opera.

This 6 DVD Box Set brings together all three Da Ponte Operas Così fan tutte ∙ Don Giovanni ∙ Le nozze di Figaro live from the Salzburg Festivals 2006 – 2009 with an extraordinary cast like Anna Netrebko and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo ∙ Patricia Petibon and Bo Skovhus ∙ Christopher Maltman and Erwin Schrott. The Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 (DVD 1&2)PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.0, DTS 5.0 (DVD 3-6)

Region code: 0

Booklet notes: English, German, French

Subtitles: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Français, Español, 日本語

Running time: DVD 1&2: 202 mins + 26 mins (Documentary), DVD 3&4: 177 mins, DVD 5&6: 191 mins

FSK: 6