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Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Mozart: Don Giovanni

Mozart: Don Giovanni

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Mozart: Don Giovanni

From the Royal Opera House: Don Giovanni, starring Mariusz Kwiecien.

From the Royal Opera House: Don Giovanni, starring Mariusz Kwiecien and conducted by Nicola Luisotti.

Tonight's Opera on 3 is another chance to hear a production of Mozart's ever-popular Don Giovanni recorded in 2014 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Mariusz Kwiecien sings the charismatic seducer who meets his match in the ghost of the man he kills, and Véronique Gens, Malin Bystrom and Elizabeth Watts sing the women who get drawn helplessly into his net.

Louise Fryer presents, and talks to director Kasper Holten about his interpretation of Mozart and Da Ponte's characters, and what hell means to a contemporary audience.

Don Giovanni ..... Mariusz Kwiecien (Baritone)
Leporello ..... Alex Esposito (Bass)
Commendatore ..... Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Bass)
Donna Elvira ..... Véronique Gens (Soprano)
Donna Anna ..... Malin Bystrom (Soprano)
Don Ottavio ..... Antonio Poli (Tenor)
Zerlina ..... Elizabeth Watts (Soprano)
Masetto ..... Dawid Kimberg (Baritone)
Royal Opera House Chorus
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Nicola Luisotti (Conductor)

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