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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2023)
Directed by Ivo van Hove, Gary Halvorson
Overview
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio.
Length 195 minutes
Actors
Peter Mattei | Ana María Martínez | Federica Lombardi | Ying Fang | Ben Bliss | Adam Plachetka | Alfred Walker | Alexander Tsymbalyuk | Erin Morley | MET Orchestra | Metropolitan Opera Chorus