Don Giovanni by Mozart, pet. 31 maj. 2024, Od (2024/2024), Režija: Johannes Weigand,, Dirigent Markus L. Frank, Anhaltisches Theater, Dessau, Germany

The legend of Don Juan, the womanizer par excellence, goes back to 14th century Spain, where a hidalgo of that name is said to have been up to mischief in Seville. This figure triumphed on European stages as early as the 17th century, and by Mozart's time everyone was already familiar with its story. Mozart’s and da Ponte’s version of the myth of the “punished libertine” who recklessly and immorally seduces countless women at the same time, kills the governor of Seville in one of his adventures and is finally dragged into hell by the statue of his murder victim is a less admonishing lesson about an antihero as a multi-layered portrait of a society that works through its own hidden desires and longings on the title character.