Don Giovanni
International Opera Academy «ASTANA OPERA»
PRESENTS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni
Drama with fun in 2 acts
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the play by Antonio de Zamora "La venganza en el sepulcro"
Music Director and Conductor: Giuseppe ACQUAVIVA
Conductor: Ruslan BAYMURZIN
Director: Ala SIMONISHVILI
Director Gulsara MEIRAMBEKOVA
Consultant Designer: Manana GUNIA
Principal Chorus Master: Yerzhan DAUTOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Vocal Coaches: Azamat ZHELTYRGUZOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Zhupar GABDULLINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Coach-Accompanists – Dina MIRMANOVA,
Zarina BIMENDINOVA
Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is based on the legend of the audacious and daring tempter who easily conquered women’s hearts. Many great writers and composers addressed this story. Only the colouring of the protagonist varied; at times he was described as a criminal and rude villain who received the deserved punishment in the finale. But sometimes authors highlighted completely different traits of Don Giovanni – his dexterity, wit, attractiveness and fearlessness.
The composer himself described the work as a hilarious drama in which the tragic and the comic, the mundane and the sublime are intertwined with particular elegance. The opera is full of expressive vocal numbers and traditional clothes changing scenes, and even contains a scene of fateful retribution. Don Giovanni appears before us as a courageous, charming and unusually energetic hero. There was no comic opera with such extraordinary intensity before Mozart.
LEAD ROLES AND PERFORMERS:
Don Giovanni: Munkhtuvshin KHOROLGARAV / Sultan BAKHYTZHAN
Donna Anna: Asylzat NUGYMANOVA / Sara SADYGULOVA
Donna Elvira: Dilnaz OMARKHANOVA / Ruzilya TYUMENTSEVA
Il Commendatore: Shyngys RASYLKHAN
Don Ottavio: Belyal KUANYSH / Ablai BEKEN
Leporello: Yerzhan SAIPOV
Masetto: Zhandarbek YERKINBAYEV
Zerlina: Vasilisa SAVKINA / Nazym SAGYNTAY
STUDENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY “ASTANA OPERA”
THE ASTANA OPERA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (with one interval)
Performed in Italia
