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Don Giovanni State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 19.Jan 2027 replace me !Don Giovanni State Opera Vienna - Wien Thu 21.Jan 2027 replace me !Don Giovanni State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 23.Jan 2027 replace me !Don Giovanni State Opera Vienna - Wien Thu 28.Jan 2027 replace me !Don Giovanni State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 30.Jan 2027 replace me !The legendary womanizer Don Giovanni unscrupulously and ruthlessly conquers the hearts of women. However, his misdeeds do not go unpunished when one day he challenges and kills the Commendatore.
When Don Giovanni tries to escape his pursuers and conceal his deeds, things get dicey. But in the end, he is called to account by a supernatural force and dragged to hell, while everyone else reflects on the transience of power and the justice of fate. The opera is a captivating portrayal of love, seduction, revenge and moral responsibility.
Barrie Kosky's production of Don Giovanni takes up the ambivalence between grotesque comedy and dark drama contained in the original play and looks deep into the psyche of the characters. Father-child conflicts, master-servant dynamics and the eternal search for one's own identity play an essential role in the interpretation of the characters. For Kosky, the space created by the play becomes a "laboratory for contradictory ideas about human existence without ready-made answers." The drama focuses on the deeply psychological, Dionysian and dangerous nature of the individual characters, who ultimately have to take responsibility for their own self-destructive urges.The first chords of the overture to Don Giovanni in D minor are unmistakable - a key that was considered an expression of particularly dark and dramatic moments and which occupies a special position in Mozart's oeuvre. For example, the Requiem (KV 626), the last work before his early death, is also in D minor. The same applies to the well-known Fantasia in D minor (K. 397) and the String Quartet No. 15 (K. 421), one of the few string quartets in a minor key, which his wife Constanze claimed in a later letter that he had composed during the birth of their first son.Mozart noted "Opera buffa" for Don Giovanni in his list of all my works on October 28, 1787 - and thus clearly assigned the work to the comic genre. A curious attribution at first glance, which has long since become the canonical subject of musicological research. Even if the tragic aspects of the opera are often emphasized today, partly due to the romantic reception of the opera, its roots in the comic genre cannot be denied: cheerful arias, puns or buffa characters such as Leporello or the "lowly" couple Zerlina and Masetto, who originate from the character typology of the so-called commedia dell'arte. But the work also exhibits characteristics of the "semiseria", the semi-tragic genre. For director Barrie Kosky, Don Giovanni thrives on this balance between comedy and tragedy.Book your ticket for one the greatest masterpieces of opera at the Vienna State Opera and book tickets at viennaticket.at.
(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
