Don Giovanni (Video on Demand)
| 14/02/2021 | |
| 12:00 | |
| ATHENS | |
| Greek National Opera | |
| Greek National Opera |
GREEK NATIONAL OPERA
Available as Video Streaming on GNO TV (click “MORE” button)
Don Giovanni (W. A. Mozart)
A co-production of the Greek National Opera with the Göteborg Opera (Sweden) and the Royal Danish Opera
Filmed at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, on December 12 and 15, 2020
Streaming Starts: February 14, 2021
Streaming Ends: Juli 31, 2021
Conductor Daniel Smith
Director John Fulljames
Associate director Aylin Bozok
Sets Dick Bird
Costumes Annemarie Woods
Choreographer Maxine Braham
Lighting designer Fabiana Piccioli
Video design Will Duke
Video programming Dan Trenchard
Chorus master Agathangelos Georgakatos
Don Giovanni Tassis Christoyannis
Donna Anna Vassiliki Karayanni
Don Ottavio Yannis Christopoulos
Il Commendatore Petros Magoulas
Donna Elvira Anna Stylianaki
Leporello Tassos Apostolou
Masetto Nikos Kotenidis
Zerlina Chrissa Maliamani
With the Orchestra and Chorus of the GNO
* The performance contains nudity.
Ticket price: 10 euros (unlimited views for 30 days)
The new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni is a great international co-production of the Greek National Opera with two major North-European opera houses, the Göteborg Opera and the Royal Danish Opera. The direction bears the stamp of distinguished director and artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera, John Fulljames. The production, after its Athens premiere in December 2020, will be presented in Göteborg and Copenhagen.
Fulljames sets the opera’s action in a modern hotel, a microcosm of a city, a meeting place, where the private becomes public and the time of stay is limited.
As the director notes, “Don Giovanni is an enduring opera because it has so many aspects; there is broad humour and great theatrical set pieces, all in a dark thriller about a seducer who must be stopped. It is about how we live together in society and, as ever with opera, about how we face death. The climax is the long-awaited death of Don Giovanni himself as he chooses death, hell even, over denying who he is. His death is an expression of order reasserting itself over the unrestrained liberty he represents.” In Don Giovanni –one of the milestones of the operatic repertoire– Mozart portrays through his music all the aspects of the trajectory of a man who fights with God and takes his fate into his own hands.