Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte, upon a Spanish story
Translation of the libretto Jasna Žarić
Conductor Johannes Wildner
Director Olivier Tambosi
Set and Costume Designer Bengt Gomér
Light Designer Deni Šesnić
Assistant Conductor Josip Šego
Quire Conductor Ivan Josip Skender
Assistant Directors Thomas Bartol, Dinka Lozić
Assistant Costume Designer Martina Franić
Premiere : October 7, 2006
With his Don Giovanni Mozart joins a small group of the immortals, whose names and works will never be forgotten, said the equally immortal Sören Kierkegaard. Mixing fear, compassion and comedy, and subtitling his work dramma giocosa (humorous drama), Mozart suggests his attitude towards the eternal subject of the seducer who has run afoul of the ”heavenly powers”, the subject which is deeply rooted in European, particularly Roman literature. This powerful musical drama with the impressive satiric-ironic characterization of the main protagonists was first performed in Prague in 1787, where it thrilled the audience same as The Marriage of Figaro some time before. Skillfully mastering tragic and comic situations, individual and group scenes and vocal and instrumental parts, Mozart has created an always popular work which has been capturing the attention of the audience for more than two hundred years. With the scenes of encounter of this world and the other world, and the revealing of the contradictory feelings of fear and spite of the main character, who is punished by death because he would not obey the existing laws and customs, this opera has miraculously announced the epoch of the romanticism, even verism in music, which would appear more than one hundred years later.


