Afternoon on 3 - Thursday Opera Matinee - Mozart's Don Giovanni

Eat your heart out Nick Clegg: Don Giovanni has slept with 2065 women. Or so he says, anyway. But perhaps he's losing his touch: in the three hours of Mozart's opera he doesn't manage to add to the total at all. Admittedly Donna Elvira and Donna Anna are already notches on his bedpost - and they're none too happy about it either, especially Anna, who blames Giovanni for the death of her father the Commendatore. But the Don can't get it together with perky country girl Zerlina either. He doesn't even get to sing an aria. And at the end when the fires of hell await, not even Giovanni's coalition partner Leporello can save him. Male fantasy? Moral fable? Join Katie Derham for your chance to decide in this performance from the stage of the Vienna State Opera. Don Giovanni ..... Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, baritone Leporello, his sidekick ..... René Pape, bass Donna Anna ..... Ricarda Merbeth, soprano Don Ottavio, her fiance ..... Michael Schade, tenor Commendatore, her father ..... Eric Halfvarson, bass Donna Elvira ..... Soile Isokoski, soprano Zerlina ..... Michaela Selinger, soprano Masetto, her fiance ..... Boaz Daniel, bass Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra Constantinos Carydis, conductor.