DESCRIPTION:
Continuing the approach already tested in Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, René Jacobs offers new keys to a reinterpretation of one of the most famous operas in the repertoire. All the yellowed varnish deposited in this timeless story during the 19th century vanishes here, making way for the dazzking colours of the music, the bite of the recitatives, the contrasts supplied by an unerring dramatic instinct.
 
Performed at the Innsbruck Festival in August 2006 and filmed in Baden-Baden, this staging has been much praised by the international press. In the documentary Looking for Don Giovanni, the director Nayo Titzin followed the creators if this production in their search for a certain musical truth.
 
CAST AND CREW:
Don Giovanni: Johannes Weisser
Leporello: Marcos Fink
Donna Elvira: Alexandrina Pendatchanska
Don Ottavio: Werner Güea
Donna Anna: Malin Bystr?m
Zerlina: Sunhae Im
Masetto: Nikolay Borchev
Commendatore: Alessandro Guerzoni
 
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Innsbruck Festival Chorus
Freiburger Barockorchester
Conductor: René Jacobs
Stage Director: Vincent Boussard
Video Director: Georg Wübbolt
 
An Innsbrucker Festwochen production.
Recorded live at the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Germany, 6 October 2006.
 
Source...........: BD50 Retail
Distributor......: Harmonia Mundi
BD Release Date..: 28 April 2008
Screen Format....: Widescreen 1.78:1
Program used.....: AnyDVD (Region Code Free)
 
 
Extras: Making of: Looking for Don Giovanni (53:56), 1080i