Mozart’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.

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Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, a whirl of creative energy, lifted the music from the score and delivered it with a vibrancy of rediscovery.

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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 

Full programme

Mozart Composer

Da Ponte Librettist

Performers

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  • Maxim Emelyanychev
    Conductor
  • Konstantin Krimmel
    Don Giovanni
  • Brindley Sherratt 
    Il Commendatore
  • Louise Alder
    Donna Anna
  • Giovanni Sala 
    Don Ottavio
  • Janai Brugger 
    Donna Elvira
  • Michael Sumuel 
    Leporello
  • William Thomas
    Masetto
  • Hera Hyesang Park 
    Zerlina
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
  • Gregory Batsleer
    Chorus Director
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  • 1st Violin
    Bogdan Bozovic
    Elizabeth Wexler
    Tijmen Huisingh (Offstage Duo)
    Kana Kawashima (Offstage Octet)
    Aisling O'Dea
    Fiona Alexander
    Amira Bedrush-McDonald
    Tom Hankey
  • 2nd Violin
    Hed Yaron Meyerson
    Gordon Bragg (Offstage Duo)
    Hatty Haynes
    Flora Fontanelli
    Rachel Smith (Offstage Duo)
    Sarah Bevan-Baker
    Stewart Webster
    Catherine James
  • Viola
    Elitsa Bogdanova
    Martin Kelly
    Christine Anderson
    Steve King
    Rebecca Wexler
    Ruth Nelson (Offstage Octet)
  • Cello
    Philip Higham (Continuo)
    Su-a Lee
    Donald Gillan (Offstage Octet)
    Eric de Wit
    Kim Vaughan
  • Bass
    Jamie Kenny (Continuo)
    Ben Havinden-Williams
    Alice Durrant
    Adrian Bornet
  • Flute
    André Cebrián
    Adam Richardson
  • Oboe
    Clara Schweinberger
    Katherine Bryer
    Fraser Kelman
    Julian Scott
  • Clarinet
    Maximiliano Martín
    William Stafford
  • Bassoon
    Cerys Ambrose-Evans
    Alison Green
  • Horn
    Kenneth Henderson
    Daniel Lőffler
    Lauren Reeve-Rawlings
    Andy Saunders
  • Trumpet
    Peter Franks
    Shaun Harrold
  • Trombone
    Duncan Wilson
    Nigel Cox
    Alan Adams
  • Timpani
    Louise Lewis Goodwin
  • Mandolin
    Ken Heggie
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  • Soprano
    Alice 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
  • Alto
    Anne 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
  • Tenor
    Anthony Mudge
    Bruce Davis
    Henry Pemberton
    Keith Main
    Michael Scanlon
    Paul Vaughan
    Rory Wilson
  • Bass
    David Paterson
    Douglas Nicholson
    Fraser Riddell
    Gavin Easton
    Kenneth Murray
    Magnus Chapman
    Peter Silver
    Richard Hyder
    Richard Murphy
    Roderick Wylie
    Sandy Matheson

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