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Opera on 3: Mozart's Don Giovanni

Mozart's Don Giovanni

01/01/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Mozart's Don Giovanni

Franz Welser-Most conducts the Vienna State Opera production of Don Giovanni.

Franz Welser-Most conducts the Vienna State Opera production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in the title role and Alex Esposito as Leporello.

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Vienna State Opera production of Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in the title role, and Alex Esposito as Leporello.

When Don Giovanni creeps into the house of the Commendatore hoping to seduce his daughter Anna, things do not go quite to plan. Anna cries out; her father rushes to help her and in the subsequent duel he is killed. So begins Mozart's masterpiece and a quest for vengeance which will take the Don and his faithful servant Leporello into the furthest realms of human experience.


Don Giovanni ..... Ildebrando D'Arcangelo 
Donna Anna ..... Sally Matthews 
Don Ottavio ..... Saimir Pirgu 
Donna Elvira ..... Roxana Constantinescu 
Leporello ..... Alex Esposito 
Il Commendatore ..... Albert Dohmen 
Masetto ..... Adam Plachetka 
Zerlina ..... Sylvia Schwartz


Vienna State Opera Chorus 
Vienna State Opera Orchestra 
Franz Welser-Möst.

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