Don Giovanni Mozart
Canadian Opera Company
Toronto, ON

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FEBRUARY 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, 17, AND 24, 2024

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Performance time is approximately three hours and 10 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission

Mozart’s dark, twisted masterpiece is presented as you’ve never seen it before in this breathtaking production from Danish director Kaspar Holten. The show features spectacular set designs combined with ingenious video projections, plunging audiences into an Escher-like web of rotating rooms, revolving with the rhythms of Don Giovanni’s infernal drama.

Inside this darkly glamorous world, we witness the playboy’s downfall when his latest seduction spirals out of control and leads to murder. In synchronicity with the stylish visuals, COC Music Director Johannes Debus and the COC Orchestra build out the otherworldly architecture of Mozart’s score—turn by musical turn—to reveal the most thrilling, adventurous, and elegant music the composer ever wrote.

Sung in Italian with English SURTITLES

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS

Conductor: Johannes Debus
Director: Kasper Holten
Associate Director: Amy Lane
Set Designer: Es Devlin
Costume Designer: Anja Vang Kragh
Lighting Designer: Bruno Poet
Projections Designer: Luke Halls
Choreographer: Signe Fabricius
Price Family Chorus Master: Sandra Horst

Don Giovanni: Gordon Bintner
Donna Elvira: Anita Hartig
Donna Anna: Mané Goloyan
Leporello: Paolo Bordogna
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Zerlina: Simone McIntosh
Masetto: Joel Allison

With the COC Orchestra and Chorus

A co-production of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Gran Theatre del Liceu; The Israeli Opera; and Houston Grand Opera

Johannes Debus is generously sponsored by George & Kathy Dembroski

Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price