Date/Time:
04/25/2015 - 05/3/2015 | Saturday | 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Location:
The Long Center
701 W. Riverside Drive
Austin,TX
78704
Categories
Austin Opera culminates its 2014-15 Season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s critically acclaimed dark comedy, “Don Giovanni.”
Join in for this incredible production featuring powerful vocals, the captivating virtuoso of Mozart, and a unique set where seduction, entertainment and danger collide. Don Giovanni is both charismatic and repulsive in his cavalier manipulations of others. But Don Giovanni, with all his arrogance, promiscuity and cunning, is finally undone by a vengeful victim incapable of outwit or defeat. This masterpiece, deemed “the greatest opera ever written” by George Bernard Shaw, brings justice to an outlandishly lecherous and wild man.
Stage director Rebecca Herman and the scenic designs of Kimm Kovac, of the Pittsburgh Opera, place Don Giovanni in a bull-fighting ring where performance, danger and death shine. This nontraditional setting will transport you out of the Long Center and deep into the lives of these classic characters you’ve just met. That’s the magic of opera, after all.
Based on the legendary Lothario, Don Juan, “Don Giovanni” was first performed in 1787 at the Teatro di Praga in Prague to rave reviews. This complex character, with his many faults, keeps audiences engrossed and rooting for his success. But by the end of two acts, you are left satisfied as Don Giovanni is brought to justice.
“Don Giovanni” will be sung in Italian with the English translation projected above the stage, in two acts. An intermission will occur after Act 1.
More info & tickets here!
