Name: Don Giovanni
Start: 2022-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Filharmonia Narodowa

Organization

Baritone

Robert Gierlach

Don Giovanni

Regisseur

Ryszard Peryt

Licht ontwerper

Piotr Rudzki

Kostuum ontwerper

Marlena Skoneczko

Set designer

Koor meester

Lilianna Krych

Michał Janicki

Piotr Halicki

Bass

Wojtek Gierlach

Il Commendatore

Sławomir Jurczak

Soprano

Gabriela Kamińska

Donna Anna

Tenor

Jacek Szponarski

Don Ottavio

Sylwester Smulczyński

Tatiana Hempel-Gierlach

Donna Elvira

Anna Wierzbicka

Paweł Michalczuk

Leporello

Krzysztof Łazicki

Masetto

Julita Mirosławska

Zerlina

Marta Boberska

Video ontwerper

Marek Zamojski

Jakub Szafrański

Assistant Conductor

Karol Szwech

Assistant Director

Dirigent

Orchestra

Polish Royal Opera Orchestra

Others

Zespół Wokalny Polskiej Opery Królewskiej

Polska Opera Królewska

Italiaans

Warschau

Polen

Filharmonia Narodowa

Don Giovanni Mozart

Public

Pools

Approved

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote Don Giovanni in 1787, commissioned by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater, just a year after its audience enthusiastically welcomed Le nozze di Figaro. Faced with such success, the then-22-year-old composer was soon asked to quickly create a new piece. Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist with whom Mozart had cooperated many times before, suggested writing about the libertine Don Juan. And so, Da Ponte took Burlador de Sevilla (The Seducer of Sevilla), a drama by Tirso de Molina, as the basis for this excellent libretto, also drawing inspiration from Molière’s famous play. The subject turned out to be incredibly inspiring for the young Mozart. Very shortly, he managed to create a piece that dazzled with its originality of musical arrangements, the perfection of form and the maturity of sound.

Although Mozart listed the piece as simply opera buffa in his private catalogue, this work is often classified as a narrower genre – dramma giocoso (a jocular drama), since the Viennese genius crossed over the boundaries of established form and masterfully tailored the music to the dramatic events. By interweaving tragic and humorous elements, he was able to create a musical reality that perfectly rendered the complexity of the story and the psychological complexity of the individual characters.

Don Giovanni holds an important position in the repertoire of the world’s most renowned opera theatres. Ever since its premiere in Prague in 1787 up to the end of the 18th century, as well as throughout the whole 19th century, there was no single year in which Don Giovanni wouldn’t be staged. What is more, its unparalleled popularity hasn’t faded away during the 20th and the 21st century. The archives of numerous productions over the centuries recall names of the most famous conductors and singers, including Ezio Pinza, Thomas Allen, Fiorenza Cossotto, Kiri Te Kanawa, Claudio Desderi, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm and many others.

English

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