Harnoncourt conducts Mozart: Don Giovanni – with Cecilia Bartoli

Mozart’s Don Giovanni is an opera that contains infinities: the adventures of the great seducer, his servant Leporello and the women he has wronged are as eternal (and as fascinating) as human nature itself. Jürgen Flimm’s classic production for Opernhaus Zürich leans into the shadows beneath the comic surface – and in this performance from 2001 Rodney Gilfry is a truly aristocratic Giovanni, with the sublime Italian mezzo Cecilia Bartoli at the pinnacle of her vocal and dramatic form as a mercurial Donna Elvira. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts, bringing all his unrivalled feeling for 18th-century music to a score that never grows old.

Soloists: 

Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo-Soprano), Matti Salminen (Bass), Rodney Gilfry (Baritone), László Polgár (Bass), Isabel Rey (Soprano), Roberto Saccà (Tenor), Liliana Nikiteanu (Mezzo-Soprano), Oliver Widmer (Bass-Baritone)

Ensembles: 

Chor des Opernhauses Zürich, Orchester des Opernhauses Zürich

Conductor: 

Nikolaus Harnoncourt