Mozart - Don Giovanni
by Peter Brook, Vincent Bataillon
List Price:
Our Price: $26.23
You Save: $3.76 (13%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Daniel Harding, Gilles Cachemaille, Mark Padmore, Mireille Delunsch, Peter MatteiDirector: Peter Brook, Vincent Bataillon
Producer: Francois Duplat
Producer: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Writer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Writer: Lorenzo da Ponte
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 190 minutes
Published: 2007
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bel Air Classiques
Movie Reviews of Mozart - Don Giovanni
Movie Review: An amazing performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the memorable Giulini's version recorded in 1961, I had never heard a so well balanced production of Mozart's best opera. The title role is wonderfully performed by the acclaimed Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, who has revealed as one of the best gifted Dons in modern times, maybe with the exception of Thomas Hampson. The warmth of his voice and his subtleness to declaim the recitatives reminds us of Eberhard Wächter. His acting is also remarkable: he makes a diabolic Don Giovanni we can not avoid to hate and find irresistible at the same time. Gilles Cachemaille makes a perfect Leporello. Having played the title role before he has an extraordinary capacity to switch roles with the Don, a quality that is hard to find in other singers, maybe with the exception of Ferrucio Furlanetto during the prime of his career. The beautiful French soprano Mireille Delunsch makes a fragile Donna Elvira who makes us believe capable of redeeming the Don. She has recently played Violetta in a recent production of La Traviata by Peter Musbach. The gorgeous Canadian soprano Alexandra Dehorties is also sensational as Donna Anna. With the exception of Renee Fleming in recent times and Joan Sutherland in the sixties there are very few sopranos capable of facing the arias with the delicacy required for that role. Mark Padmore is great as Don Ottavio, his way of singing the two famous arias "Dalla Sua Pace" and "Il Mio Tesoro" can be compared with Luigi Alva in Giulini's version. Lisa Larsson is a delicious Zerlina. Daniel Harding's conduction is superb and so is Peter Brook's production. His mise en scene is minimalistic and quite similar to Deborah Warner's in the 1986 Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
This is definetively a must buy.
Similar DVD Movies
Verdi - La TraviataVERDI,G.; Release date: 2006-06-13; DVD
Best price: $15.77
Price in other shops:
Mozart: Don GiovanniNaxos OF America INC; Release date: 2009-05-26; DVD
Best price: $28.23
Price in other shops:
Bizet: CarmenUniversal Studios; Release date: 2008-10-28; Published: 2011-10-24; DVD
Best price: $14.67
Price in other shops:
Mozart - Cosi fan TutteNaxos OF America INC; Release date: 2007-04-24; Published: 2007-03-30; DVD
Best price: $21.88
Price in other shops:
Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte / Wall, Garanca, Bonney, Degout, Mathey, Raimondi, Harding (Aix-en-Provence 2005)Release date: 2006-08-01; DVD
Best price: $16.17
Price in other shops:
Adam Fischer, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: Cosi fan tutteRelease date: 2010-08-30; DVD
Best price: $27.85
Price in other shops:
Meetings with Remarkable MenRelease date: 1997-01-01; Published: 2005; DVD
Best price: $29.95
The MahabharataImage Entertainment; Release date: 2008-11-25; DVD
Best price: $24.95
Price in other shops:
Great Baritone AriasRelease date: 2011-04-26; Music CD
Best price: $18.86
Price in other shops:
Donizetti: Anna BolenaRelease date: 2011-11-01; Published: 2011-11-18; DVD
Best price: $22.47
Price in other shops: