Close menu

Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,834 playable programmes from the BBC

Live from the Met: Don Giovanni

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Mozart's opera of seduction, murder and revenge, one of his three collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte
. Don Giovanni (Don Juan ) is a Spanish nobleman who prides himself on his amorous exploits and gets his manservant Leporello to keep a running tally in a book: 640 in Italy, 230 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey and 103 in Spain. Today's adventures, however, will see the libertine finally punished. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera,
New York, conductor
James Levine
Act
8.05 The Met Opera Quiz
8.35 Act 2
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Unknown:
. Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Don Juan
Conductor:
James Levine
Don Giovanni:
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Leporello:
John Cheek (baritone)
Donna Anna:
Jane Eaglen (sop)
Donna Elvira:
Patricia Schuman (sop)
Zerlina:
Ruth Ann Swenson (sop)
Don Ottavio:
Stanford Olsen (tenor)
Masetto:
Herbert Perry (bass)
The Commendatore:
Paata Burchuladze (bass)
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Appears in

Suggest an Edit

We are trying to reflect the information printed in the Radio Times magazine.

  • Press the 'Suggest an Edit' button
  • Type in any changes to the title, synopsis or contributor information using the Radio Times Style Guide for reference.
  • Click the Submit Edits button.
    Your changes will be sent for verification and if accepted, will appear in due course More