don giovanni
June 13 & 15, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Music Hall • springer auditorium
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Sung in Italian with projected English translations
Man behaving Badly.
Mozart’s riveting masterpiece follows Don Giovanni, a man who uses people without a care for their hearts, or the consequences. All the while, the Don’s servant Leporello records his master’s misdeeds. By killing the father of a woman he’s attacked, Giovanni sets in motion events that could lead to his end. Will he get away with his unrepentant pursuit of selfish desire? Or will there be hell to pay?
News and Reviews
Cincinnati Business Courier: “In Cincinnati Opera’s production unveiled June 13, Grim Reaper-like figures and winged ‘angels of death’ surrounded Giovanni and swept him away into Hell. The scene was positively bone-chilling, and one of the most inventive I’ve ever seen.” Read the review >>
Jay Harvey Upstage: “The director’s handling of chorus master Henri Venanzi's singers and several unvoiced supernumeraries hewed to the same relevant dramatic standard established by the named characters. It was well supplemented by Yoshihisa Arai's choreography and Philip Witcomb's occasionally surrealistic costume design. The four attendant ghosts in the climactic scene are an indelible part of my memories of this superlative production.” Read the review >>
Cincinnati Business Courier: CCM's Elliot Madore brings nuance to bad boy Don Giovanni in Cincinnati Opera production
“I’ve done this role more than any other role,” [Madore] said. “I know it very, very well. I love the music. I love the character. I love everything about this piece. So, any time I have the opportunity to be able to do it, I never say no.” Read more >>
90.9 WGUC: Cincinnati Opera Presents Don Giovanni June 13-15
“A wonderful production that is very atmospheric and very moody, it’s sort of ‘long ago’ and ‘far away,’” according to Evans Mirageas, “but our intention is to bring the story closer to our own time.” Listen here >>
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
Cast & Creative Team
Don Giovanni – Elliot Madore
Donna Anna – Jessica Faselt
Donna Elvira – Jessica Rivera
Don Ottavio – Aaron Blake
Leporello – Christian Pursell
Zerlina – Erin Keesy
Masetto – Joseph Parrish
Commendatore – Patrick Guetti
Conductor – Dame Jane Glover
Stage Director – Alison Moritz
Scenic and Costume Designer – Philip Witcomb
Lighting Designer – Thomas C. Hase
Wig and Makeup Designer – James Geier
Chorus Master – Henri Venanzi
Choreographer – Yoshihisa Arai
Featuring the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, and the Cincinnati Opera Chorus
DISCOVER MORE
Opera Insights
Enhance your Don Giovanni appreciation with a pre-curtain talk one hour before each performance in Music Hall's Corbett Tower. Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, provides a 30-minute overview and insights into the opera's history, music, and production. Free to all ticket holders. No reservations required.
Digital Program Book
Find synopses, essays, artist information, and more. Read more >>
Director’s Essay: Unmasking Mozart’s Don
“Rather than being the focal point of the story, he [Don Giovanni] became a catalyst for the stories of the six people around him—people of different classes and backgrounds, men and women, who are all affected by this single man who seems to breeze through life without feeling the consequences of his actions. Until he does.” Read more >>
LIsten
Meet the Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart is considered one of the greatest composers of all time and his operas are among his greatest works. His golden decade in Vienna (1781–91) was marked by his three-opera collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.
Click below to read more from the English National Opera.
Performance Sponsors:
KATHLEEN LAURIN-MARTIN and
DR. JOSEPH C. MARTIN
Original illustration of “Don Giovanni”: Aimee Sposito Martini