Mozart: Don Giovanni

Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Irina Lungu (Donna Anna), Maria José Siri (Donna Elvira), Saimir Pirgu (Don Ottavio), Natalia Roman (Zerlina), Christian Senn (Masetto), Rafał Siwek (Il Commendatore)

Arena di Verona, Stefano Montanari, Franco Zeffirelli

They really don’t make them like this any more…The production is lavish and highly populated, 18th-century Seville in all its Baroque glory...Although the playing of the Arena di Verona Orchestra... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

Release Date: 9th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: 751904
Label: C Major

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Irina Lungu (Donna Anna), Maria José Siri (Donna Elvira), Saimir Pirgu (Don Ottavio), Natalia Roman (Zerlina), Christian Senn (Masetto), Rafał Siwek (Il Commendatore)
Arena di Verona
Stefano Montanari, Franco Zeffirelli

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Mozart's Don Giovanni, in the beautiful staging by legendary Franco Zeffirelli is a spectacle with a strong aesthetising component, a feast for the eyes. In this production Zeffirelli returns to a representative Super classic line, renewing the complex mechanisms of almost all his other productions (Il corriere musicale) with beautiful classic costumes by Maurizio Millenotti and lights by Paolo Mazzon (L'ape musicale). Carlos Álvarez is of beautiful voice (GP Opera) and presumably todays best Don Giovanni (L'ape musicale) while Irina Lungu is one of the best lyric sopranes (L'ape musicale). Donna Elvira, being sung by Maria José Siri was clearly and advantageously represented by her mellow and beguiling voice. (MTG Lirica)

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November 2019

They really don’t make them like this any more…The production is lavish and highly populated, 18th-century Seville in all its Baroque glory...Although the playing of the Arena di Verona Orchestra can be erratic, conductor Stefano Montanari falls in sync with the mood of the show and gives us BIG effects...The standouts are the superb Lungu as Donna Anna, fierce and brilliant in her arias, and Saimir Pirgu’s ardent, stylish Ottavio.

November 2019

The picture quality of this Blu-ray disc is excellent. There is a bonus: a documentary which interviews most of the principal singers and conductor Stefano Montanari about their approach to the music and their respective roles.

Opera Now October 2019

The strong cast – including Carlos Álvarez, Maria José Siri and Irina Lungu – is not the most idiomatic but undeniably vibrant. Lavish costumes and towering sets suit the Arena’s vast stage, so although Don Giovanni wouldn’t be my first choice for the venue, the show has a swashbuckling cinematic sweep.

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