W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni DVD 2003 / Directed by Georg Wübbolt / Text and Narration by Sir Peter Ustinov / The Salzburg Marionette Theatre / Wiener Philharmoniker / Conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

UPC 4028462020059

REGION 0 PAL DVD

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: English 5.1, German 5.1, French 5.1, English 2.0, German 2.0, French 2.0

SUBTITLES: -

TOTAL RUNTIME: 104 minutes

English Summary:

Don Giovanni K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.

A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, Don Giovanni for the five seasons 2011/12 through 2015/16 was ninth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. It has also proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers.

Text and Narrator: Sir Peter Ustinov

Producer: Wolf-Dieter Ludwig

Vienna Philharmony Orchestra

Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf

A production of ZDF and 3sat

Directed by Georg Wübbolt

German Summary:

Don Giovanni oder vollständig Il dissoluto punito ossia Il Don Giovanni (‚Der bestrafte Wüstling oder Don Giovanni‘) KV 527 ist ein Dramma giocoso in zwei Akten von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nach einem Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte. Die Oper, deren Aufführung etwa zwei Stunden und 45 Minuten dauert, zählt zu den Meisterwerken der Oper. Das bereits vielfach dargestellte Don-Juan-Thema wurde durch Mozarts und Da Pontes Interpretation zum Archetypus, mit dem sich Persönlichkeiten der europäischen Kulturgeschichte von E. T. A. Hoffmann bis Søren Kierkegaard neu auseinandersetzten

Text und Sprecher: Sir Peter Ustinov

Inszenierung: Wolf-Dieter Ludwig

Wiener Philharmoniker

Dirigent: Erich Leinsdorf

Eine produktion von ZDF und 3sat, 1995

Regie Georg Wübbolt

CAST:

Don Giovanni: Cesare Siepi

Donna Anna: Birgit Nilsson

Donna Elvira: Leontyne Price

Don Ottavio: Cesare Valletti

Leporello: Fernando Corena

Zerlina: Eugenia Ratti

Masetto: Heinz Blankenburg

Il Commendatore: Arnold van Mill