Dramma giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He is one of the great characters of world literature: the seducer Don Juan, or Don Giovanni. His most gripping portrait was created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his congenial librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Their opera is undisputedly one of the most important masterpieces in music theater. Mozart and Da Ponte gave the punished libertine (the first title in German) his comical and (at times) courageous servant Leporello, Donna Anna, who has not forgotten her love for him, and Donna Elvira, who is deeply hurt. And what about Zerlina, who sings Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben in one of the most beautiful serenades in the entire operatic repertoire? How does her not-yet-bridegroom Masetto take her advances? And then there is the Commendatore, who returns as a stone guest after his murder: the most vengeful father in music history, as Peter Shaffer put it in the mouth of Mozart's rival Antonio Salieri in his play Amadeus.
The production will be staged by in-house director Daniel Pfluger, who has been responsible for several successful productions at the Volkstheater Rostock in recent years, including Amadeus, Hansel and Gretel, Pride and Prejudice* (*or something like that) and Cabaret.
