Don Giovanni

Australian Opera - Palais Theatre Melbourne 1979

The Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra

Don Giovanni complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787.[1] Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.

Orchestra and Performers : Richard Bonynge, George Ogilvie, Hugh Colman, Kristian Fredrikson, Clifford Grant, Lyndon Terracini, Joan Sutherland, James Morris, Neil Warren Smith, Margreta Elkins, Henri Wilden, Kathleen Moore

Size 200 x 125 mm  Pictures and information of the cast and show.