
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
OPERA IN CONCERT / SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAMozart’s Don Giovanni
OPERA IN CONCERT / SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
PART OF THE ANDERSON OPERA SERIES
Experience Mozart’s great opera of seduction, trickery and retribution.
Don Giovanni is notorious throughout Europe for his insatiable appetite for women. But his luck is running out. Mozart’s magnificent opera – one of several collaborations with the writer Lorenzo da Ponte – covers one whirlwind day, as Giovanni commits murder, flees a determined ex-lover and faces a supernatural visitor.
The alternately witty and profound score is one of Mozart’s finest. Its highlights include heartfelt solos for the wronged female characters, knockabout scenes for Giovanni and his hapless servant Leporello, and the arrival of the ghostly Commendatore – one of the greatest moments in all opera.
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus and a brilliant cast in the fourth of their acclaimed series of Mozart operas in concert at the Festival.
This concert will be recorded for broadcast by our partners BBC Radio 3. Find out more.
Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, a whirl of creative energy, lifted the music from the score and delivered it with a vibrancy of rediscovery.
The Anderson Opera Series, made possible by James and Morag Anderson, allows the Festival to bring internationally acclaimed opera to Edinburgh and ensures these unmissable performances remain accessible to the widest possible audience.
Programme
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
Unfortunately, Brindley Sherratt is indisposed and unable to join the cast of Don Giovanni. We’re delighted that Clive Bayley will now sing the role of Il Commendatore. He most recently sang the role at Aix-en-Provence last year with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle.
Full programme
Mozart Composer
Da Ponte Librettist
Performers
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- Maxim EmelyanychevConductor
- Konstantin KrimmelDon Giovanni
- Clive BayleyIl Commendatore
- Louise AlderDonna Anna
- Giovanni Sala Don Ottavio
- Janai Brugger Donna Elvira
- Michael Sumuel Leporello
- William ThomasMasetto
- Hera Hyesang Park Zerlina
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
- Gregory BatsleerChorus Director
Scottish Chamber OrchestraCloseOpen
- 1st ViolinBogdan Bozovic
Elizabeth Wexler
Tijmen Huisingh
Kana Kawashima
Amira Bedrush-McDonald
Aisling O'Dea
Fiona Alexander
Tom Hankey - 2nd ViolinHed Yaron Meyerson
Gordon Bragg
Hatty Haynes
Flora Fontanelli
Rachel Smith
Sarah Bevan-Baker
Stewart Webster
Catherine James - ViolaElitsa Bogdanova
Martin Kelly
Christine Anderson
Steve King
Rebecca Wexler
Ruth Nelson - CelloPhilip Higham
Su-a Lee
Donald Gillan
Eric de Wit
Kim Vaughan - BassJamie Kenny
Ben Havinden-Williams
Alice Durrant
Adrian Bornet - FluteAndré Cebrián
Adam Richardson - OboeMaria Victoria Muñoz Zaragozá
Katherine Bryer - ClarinetMaximiliano Martín
William Stafford - BassoonCerys Ambrose-Evans
Alison Green - HornKenneth Henderson
Daniel Lőffler - TrumpetPeter Franks
Shaun Harrold - TromboneDuncan Wilson
Nigel Cox
Alan Adams - TimpaniLouise Lewis Goodwin
- MandolinNigel Woodhouse
- Orchestra 1
- ViolinKana Kawashima
Rachel Smith - ViolaRuth Nelson
- CelloDonald Gillan
- OboeFraser Kelman
Julian Scott - HornLauren Reeve Rawlings
Andy Saunders - Orchestra 2
- ViolinGordon Bragg
- BassAdrian Bornet
- Orchestra 3
- ViolinTijmen Huisingh
- BassBen Havinden-Williams
Scottish Chamber Orchestra ChorusCloseOpen
- SopranoAlice Higgins
Annike Petin
Elizabeth McColl
Emily Gifford
Emily Kemp
Florence Kaiser
Jenny Nex
Joanne Dunwell
Katie McGlew
Kirstin Anderson
Morven Chisholm
Nancy Burns
Steph Humphreys - AltoAnne Gallacher
Caroline Hahn
Charlotte Perkins
Claire Goodenough
Dinah Bourne
Elaine McAdam
Fiona Haldane
Gill Cloke
Jennie Gardner
Judith Colman
Linda Ruxton
Melissa Humphreys
Olivia Smith
Sarah Campbell
Shona Banks - TenorAnthony Mudge
Bruce Davis
Henry Pemberton
Keith Main
Michael Scanlon
Paul Vaughan
Rory Wilson - BassDavid Paterson
Douglas Nicholson
Fraser Riddell
Gavin Easton
Kenneth Murray
Magnus Chapman
Peter Silver
Richard Hyder
Richard Murphy
Roderick Wylie
Sandy Matheson
Dive Deeper
Listen to The Warm Up: your audio introduction to the performance.
