Don Giovanni - Vienna Opera Summer Festival 2024

In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni", we experience one particular day of the notorious debaucher, whose amorous adventures unsettle the whole of Europe. But his nefarious actions soon lead to dark consequences after he seduces the daughter of a morality-guarding Commendatore and subsequently kills him in a duel.

While Don Giovanni, with his faithful companion Leporello, continues to pursue his desires without a care in the world, a web of vengefulness and helplessness forms around him. In a series of fateful encounters and mistaken identities, he is finally confronted with his own moral decline, with the ghost of the Commendatore always breathing down his neck. The story culminates in a dramatic finale in which Don Giovanni, with his ultimate indifference, confronts the Commendatore in petrified form and thus faces death.

THROUGH ITS CAPTIVATING TALE OF LOVE, SEDUCTION AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN MORALITY AND FREEDOM, "DON GIOVANNI" RAISES ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. IS HE GOING TAKE OTHERS ALONG IN HIS DOWNFALL TO HELL?

* VIP tickets include a meet & greet with artists and the artistic director incl. champagne reception & finger food.

Program and cast

THOMAS TATZL - Don Giovanni

ANDREAS HÖRL - Commendatore

NATHALIE PEÑA-COMAS - Donna Anna

JOHANNES BAMBERGER - Don Ottavio

MARTINA NEUBAUER - Donna Elvira

ALEXANDRE BEUCHAT - Leporello

EJNAR ČOLAK - Leporello

JULIETTE KHALIL - Zerlina

FELIX PACHER - Masetto

DANCE ENSEMBLE: Elisabeth Bohaumilitzky, Marlene Hengstberger, Mara Kluhs, Marina Rützler, Marcin Denkiewicz, Johann Ebert, Joni Österlund, Anderson Pinheiro Da Silva

JOJI HATTORI, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

DOMINIK AM ZEHNHOFF-SÖNS, STAGE DIRECTOR & CASTING DIRECTOR

MANFRED WABA, STAGE DESIGNER

JESSICA WURZER, CHOREOGRAPHER

ORCHESTRA - THE VIENNA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

GERA GRAF / ANDREA FISCHER (COSTUME DESIGNERS)
KORDULA LINGLER (HEAD OF HAIR AND MAKEUP)
ELISABETH VOLLNHOFER (HAIR AND MAKEUP ASSISTANT)
BENJAMIN PRIEGER (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)
FLORIAN STANEK (ADAPTATION LIBRETTO)
ANNEGRET RITZEL (DRAMATURGE)
SIMON LOCHER (LIGHTING DESIGN)
DAVORIN MORI (ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR)
AYAKO ONO (REPETITEUR)
MELANIE WURZER (ARTISTIC PRODUCTION COORDINATOR)
ALEXANDER MEDEM (STAGE MANAGER)

The dialogues between the musical numbers are spoken in German.