The opera is presented under the musical direction of Audrey Olos and directed by the distinguished director and former artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera, John Fuljames
Mozart’s masterpiece opera “Don Giovanni” comes to the National Opera at the SNFCC, from October 21 and for five performances. It is a major international co-production of ELLS with the Gothenburg and Copenhagen Operas, which, after its preparation and online premiere by GNO TV in Athens in 2020/21, was presented with great success in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2022, while in 2023 he will travel to Gothenburg, Sweden.
The opera is presented under musical direction Audrey Allos and directed by distinguished director and former artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera John Fuljames. In “Don Giovanni” – one of the landmarks of the operatic repertoire – Mozart renders with his music all aspects of the path of the man who messes with God and takes his fate into his own hands. The case concerns the love affairs of the promiscuous Spanish nobleman Don Giovanni.
O John Fuljames, who places the action of the opera in a present-day hotel, in the microcosm of a city where the private becomes public and the time of stay is limited, notes: “Death runs through Don Giovanni as an atmosphere. Don Giovanni’s own death is an expression of class that is reasserted. All traces of it disappear and society continues. A miniature version of this reassertion of order occurs every time we leave a hotel, as our rooms are disinfected and made new again to recreate the illusion that a new tenant, tonight, will be the first. Hotels are scenes in which we live lives in defiance of mortality. The mess we create is cleaned up, no action has consequences and there are clean sheets every day.
Hotels are important for other reasons as well. They are places where different people and classes meet – be it a civic event, a wedding where a family spends their life savings, a well-to-do lodger staying there for a long time, or a traveler visiting a city. Places where there is both intimacy and anonymity, both private and public spaces. Places where a large part of the operation is oriented around what happens after dark. But above all they are places from which one day we must check out. So please make yourself at home, check in, collect your room key, lock up your valuables and let the world out.”
In the purely Greek cast, we will have the opportunity to see and listen to established and younger protagonists of the ELLS. In the title role, the baritone Dionysis Sourbis and with him the trebles Tselia Kostea, Myrsini Margariti, Miranda Makryniotis, the tenor Vassilis Kavayas, the bassist Petros Magoulas, the basso-baritone Yiannis Giannisis and the baritone Nikos Kotenidis.
The production is implemented with the support of the donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for strengthening the artistic extroversion of ELLS.
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