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Don Giovanni


by W. A. Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte


April 22 - May 7, 2006

Synopsis

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This production sponsored by
The Packard Humanities Institute

Performances are supported, in part, by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts:



A Great Nation Deserves Great Art.


Don Giovanni is eternally fascinating.  Mozart and da Ponte created one of the most intriguing of anti-heroes when they put together the personality that is Giovanni.  An insatiable libertine plagued by past conquests who come back to haunt him, the Don unknowingly faces his last day on earth in this indefinable mix of tragic, comic, and farcical scenes.  That Mozart composed the music is the best recommendation, but that da Ponte wrote the libretto is also a great advantage, as his collaborations with Mozart are considered to be among the very finest of all time.  As always with Mozart, the music is rewarding from start to finish, and the characters are enormously memorable.
 

Conductor:     George Cleve*
Assistant Conductor:     Anthony Quartuccio**
Stage Director:     Lorna Haywood
Chorus Master:     Bruce Olstad
Set design:     Giulio Cesare Perrone
Costume design:     Julie Engelbrecht
Lighting design:     Pamila Z. Gray
Wig and makeup design:     Sara Beukers

*4/22, 4/23, 4/25, 4/30, 5/5, 5/7

**4/27 and 4/29


Casting*
 

  4/22 4/25 4/27 4/30   4/23 4/29 5/5 5/7
Donna Anna:  Lori Decter

 Deborah Berioli

Donna Elvira:

Janelle Laurenti

Janelle Laurenti

Don Ottavio: Christopher Bengochea Adam Flowers
Don Giovanni: Joseph Wright Jason Detwiler
Leporello:

Jesse Merlin

Kirk Eichelberger 

Commendatore: Carlos Aguilar Carlos Aguilar
Zerlina:  Sandra Rubalcava Michele Detwiler
Masetto: Gregory Fair Nickolaus Schiffman


*Casting subject to change without notice.
 


 

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