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Don Giovanni

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Drarnma giocoso in two acts Music by MOZART
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE (sung in Italian)
From the 1969 Salzburg Festival. Salzburg is, like Glyndebourne, first and foremost a Mozart Festival, but on a grander scale; and of all Mozart's operas Don Giovanni most benefits from the grand manner.
Peasants, guests and demons VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio) The action takes place in Seville Act 1
Scene 1 Outside the Commendatore's house
Scene 2 A street in a village
Scene 3 Near Don Giovanni 's house
Scene 4 Outside Don Giovanni 's house
Scene 5 The ballroom in Don Giovanni 's house

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
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Leporello, Don Giovanni's ser:
Geraint Evans (bass-Baritone)
Donna Anna, daughter of the commendatore:
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Don Giovanni a licentious nobleman:
Nicolai Giaurov (bass)
The Commendatore:
Victor von Halem (bass)
Don Ottavio, betrothed to Donna Anna:
Alfredo Kraus (tenor)
Donna Elvira, a lady from Burgos, seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni:
Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano)
Zerlina, a peasant girl:
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Masetto, a peasant, her be:
Rolando Panerai (baritone)

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