Mozart’s Don Giovanni, in the beautiful staging by legendary Franco Zeffirelli is a spectacle with a strong aesthetising component, a feast for the eyes. In this production “Zeffirelli returns to a representative Super classic line, renewing the complex mechanisms of almost all his other productions” (Il corriere musicale) with “beautiful classic costumes by Maurizio Millenotti and lights by Paolo Mazzon” (L’ape musicale). Carlos Álvarez is “of beautiful voice” (GP Opera) and “presumably today’s best Don Giovanni” (L’ape musicale) while “Irina Lungu is one of the best lyric sopranes” (L’ape musicale). “Donna Elvira, being sung by Maria José Siri was clearly and advantageously represented by her mellow and beguiling voice” (MTG Lirica).

Recording date: Arena di Verona, Verona, 2015
Sound format: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.1
Picture: NTSC, 16:9
Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, French, German, Korean, Japanese (Bonus: Italian, English)
Booklet: English, German, French
Total running time: 187 mins (opera: 170 mins; bonus: 17 mins)