Mozart: Don Giovanni
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
DON GIOVANNI
Dramma giocoso in two acts K 527
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
PHILIPP HIMMELMANN Stage Direction
JOHANNES LEIACKER Scenery
FLORENCE VON GERKAN Costume
ERWIN SCHROTT Don Giovanni
ANNA NETREBKO Donna Anna
LUCA PISARONI Leporello
MALENA ERNMAN Donna Anna
CHARLES CASTRONOVO Don Ottavio
KATIJA DRAGOJEVIC Zerlina
JONATHAN LEMALU Masetto
BALTHASAR NEUMANN CHOIR
BALTHASAR NEUMANN ENSEMBLE
THOMAS HENGELBROCK
Publication: October 2014, Sony Music
A live recording of Don Giovanni from the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, recorded on May 23rd 2013. Erwin Schrott performing in his most celebrated role, Don Giovanni. Featuring a stellar cast of singers – Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko, Luca Pisaroni, Malena Ernman.
Philipp Himmelmann’s staging of Don Giovanni boasts a star cast, Erwin Schrott performs in his signature role alongside Anna Netrebko. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung states “Netrebko’s voice has continued to grow in depth; its charisma and verve are still unparalleled. She gives a superlative performance of Donna Anna’s great arias and pervades this character with truth, poetry and drama: an Anna who – as if she were a sister of Isolde – loves to the point of death. Thomas Hengelbrock, who is tasked with blending this dream voice with his Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, does so with an astounding romanticised reading of Mozart, almost in the spirit of the 19th century, (…) as if he has to make time stand still: linger, right now!”