Don Giovanni
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Karina Canellakis, conductor (Violin ’04)
R. B. Schlather, stage director
Don Giovanni has seduced innumerable women, inspiring admiration, jealousy, and scorn in equal measure. Now the tables are turned on the unrepentant lord, as those he has wronged join forces to stop him—and a statue comes to life, ending his libertine campaign. The “edgy and imaginative young director” (The New Yorker) R. B. Schlather brings his distinctive vision to Mozart’s masterwork, with the fast-rising conductor Karina Canellakis on the podium.
CAST (in singing order)
| March 7 and 9 | March 8 and 10 | |
| Leporello | Adam Kiss | Vartan Gabrielian |
| Donna Anna | Tiffany Townsend | Rachel Sterrenberg* |
| Don Giovanni | Dennis Chmelensky | Jorge Espino |
| Commendatore | Vartan Gabrielian | Adam Kiss |
| Don Ottavio | Aaron Crouch | Martin Luther Clark |
| Donna Elvira | Sophia Hunt | Ashley Marie Robillard |
| Masetto | Charles Buttigieg | Charles Buttigieg |
| Zerlina | Lindsey Reynolds | Ziyi Dai |
| *guest artist |
The Curtis Opera Theatre season is sponsored by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.
Don Giovanni and Empty the House are presented as part of Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman, in partnership with Opera Philadelphia and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Don Giovanni is sponsored in part by the Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for Opera.
