Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Bo Skovhus (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), David Bizic (Masetto), Colin Balzer (Don Ottavio), Kristine Opolais (Donna Elvira), Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina) & Anatoli Kotscherga (Il Commandatore)

English Voices & Freiburger Barockorchester, Louis Langrée

Tcherniakov's reading gives depth to a drama too often tripped up by creaking period theatrical conceits...Skovhus is electrifying in the lead role as he pivots from roaring malevolence to whispered... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2013
Catalogue No: BAC480
Label: Bel Air Classiques

BBC Music Magazine

November 2013

DVD/Blu-ray Choice

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence - 07/2010
Bo Skovhus (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), David Bizic (Masetto), Colin Balzer (Don Ottavio), Kristine Opolais (Donna Elvira), Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina) & Anatoli Kotscherga (Il Commandatore)
English Voices & Freiburger Barockorchester
Louis Langrée

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Stage direction: Dmitri Tcherniakov

Costumes: Dmitri Tcherniakov & Elena Zaitseva

Lighting Gleb Filshtinsky

A new 'Don Giovanni' in Aix from renowned Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov, awarded best director at the International Opera Awards 2013, and conductor Louis Langrée.

More than two centuries after its creation, the emotional pull of this supreme opera remains absolutely intact. Dmitri Tcherniakov duly revisits the myth and makes the seducer of Seville a ‘man without qualities’, a cipher whose words have a hypnotic power over women. His words will disrupt the proprieties ruling the Commandatore’s family. His words are also what makes Don Juan such a subversive figure and the embodiment of one of the most powerful modern European myths.

Leading the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is one of the best Mozart conductors, Louis Langrée. Bo Skovhus portrays a dispirited Don Giovanni, old playboy and anti-hero. Kyle Ketelsen is his servant Leporello, currently a shoe-in for this rôle.

The superb female trio is composed of Marlis Petersen (Donna Anna), Kristine Opolais (Elvira) and Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina).

Running time: 183 min.

Bonus: Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence (26 min.)

Booklet: (FR / ANGL / ALL)

Subtitles: (FR / ANGL / ALL / ESP / IT)

Image: 1080i, Colour, 16/9, NTSC

Sound: PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1

Reviews

November 2013

Tcherniakov's reading gives depth to a drama too often tripped up by creaking period theatrical conceits...Skovhus is electrifying in the lead role as he pivots from roaring malevolence to whispered fragility...The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Louis Langree articulates extreme states of mind latent in Mozart's score...This DVD is a must-see.

Awards Issue 2013

The singing is good, and the acting is so accomplished that you feel you are watching 'real life' rather than 'a performance'. The orchestra plays well. If Louis Langree's conducting lacks tenderness, it certainly accords with this very unjocular interpretation of da Ponte's dramma giocoso...Tcherniakov has more knowledge than understanding.

September 2013

The recitative to ‘La ci darem la mano’ and the duet itself are played and sung introspectively, slowly, convincing once Giovanni is sincere. It is among the most effective passages in the show.

28th November 2013

It's beautifully performed – Skovhus has done nothing finer – and there's an outstanding Ottavio, morally implacable rather than dithering, in Colin Balzer. But the narrative remains Tcherniakov's rather than Mozart's

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