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.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Part of the Anderson Opera Series.
Photo: Andrew Perry