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Don Giovanni - Welsh National Opera

Composer:
Composer: Mozart. Conductor: Lothar Koenigs
Management:
Welsh National Opera
Cast:
David Soar, Camilla Roberts, David Kempster, Carlo Malinverno, Robin Tritschler, Nuccia Focile, Claire Ormshaw, Gary Griffiths
Director:
John Caird
Design:
John Napier (also design with Yoon Bae
Lighting:
David Hersey
Choreography:
Kate Flatt

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Everyone's favourite Lothario villain is reincarnated on stage for Welsh National Opera's Don Giovanni, juxtaposing light and dark to great effect. This production brings together three of the award-winning team behind Les Miserables - director John Caird, designer John Napier and lighting designer David Hersey. The trio have created an impressively oppressive mood that's perfect for Mozart's darkly intense, flawed masterpiece. Taking inspiration from Rodin's The Gates of Hell, the ominous sculptural set is the grand star of the show, the ornate bronze panels of writhing bodies both lustful and entombed. These pivoting panels act as a constant and theatrical reminder that, beneath the surface amusements of Don Giovanni's womanising, lies the suffering of his victims and a threat of eternal damnation...

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