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Mozart - Don Giovanni | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C846153

Mozart - Don Giovanni

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C846153

Barcode: 4011790846323

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 12th January 2015

Contents

Artists

Ruggero Raimondi
Margaret Price
Julia Varady
Lucia Popp
Kurt Moll
Stafford Dean
Hermann Winkler
Enrico Fissore
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Conductor

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527

Artists

Ruggero Raimondi
Margaret Price
Julia Varady
Lucia Popp
Kurt Moll
Stafford Dean
Hermann Winkler
Enrico Fissore
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Conductor

Wolfgang Sawallisch

About

Even at the big opera houses it’s a real stroke of luck if a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni doesn’t just have a charismatic Don, but a whole ensemble that’s able to exert its magnetism over the assembled audience (and who thus manage not to follow the Don’s example – after all, his attempts at conquest go awry throughout the opera, with only the memories of earlier conquests remaining).

This rare constellation – having an engaging title hero whose gifts are matched by the objects of his passion – in fact came about in 1973 at the Munich Opera Festival. Ruggero Raimondi was in his early 30s at the time and his unmistakeable, agile, irresistible bass-baritone voice veritably conquered the Bavarian State Opera. In the process he established himself as the Don Giovanni of his generation.

But while he was the centre of attention, he was by no means the only sensation of the production. With Margaret Price as Donna Anna, Julia Varady as Donna Elvira and Lucia Popp as Zerlina, he was faced with a trio of sopranos who in their individual arias and in their numerous, tricky ensemble numbers turned the evening into a musical feast – as we can now hear in this live recording of the opening night.

In the midst of these powerful, highly individual personalities, Hermann Winkler’s lyric dramatic tenor and Stafford Dean’s agile lyric buffo bass were well able to hold their ground as Don Ottavio and the servant Leporello respectively. Enrico Fissore offered a vigorous Masetto, while Giovanni’s final descent into hell – which leaves shivers down many a spine – was made doubly gripping by the dark bass of Kurt Moll’s Commendatore and by Wolfgang Sawallisch at the helm of the Bavarian State Orchestra.

This was a Don Giovanni of fast-paced tempi, with a momentum brilliantly geared to the dramatic trajectory, carried by the lyrical qualities of its singers, and with a perfect sense of poise and exhilarating intimacy at just the right moments.

Cast:
- Don Giovanni: Ruggero Raimondi
- Donna Anna: Margaret Price
- Donna Elvira: Julia Varady
- Zerlina: Lucia Popp
- Il Commendatore: Kurt Moll
- Leporello: Stafford Dean
- Don Ottavio: Hermann Winkler
- Masetto: Enrico Fissore

Live recording 12th July 1973, Munich

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