Mozart's Don Giovanni

Seduction & revelry, betrayal & revenge, murder, a catalog of seduction, rapture & bliss— this opera has it all.  As Francesca Zambello, director of Glimmerglass, stated, only partially in jest, "If you like food and wine and sex, you'll love [this] opera, . . . .because it's an incredibly pleasurable experience—great, visual, powerful, aural pleasures, and amazing stories and characters and music."

Don Giovanni, Mozart's dramma giocoso masterpiece, was presented for the first time in Prague in 1787 and was Hidden Valley Opera Ensemble's debut production.  During their fiftieth anniversary celebrations this year, Hidden Valley revisits this great work,  sung in English, with a compelling mix of some of America's finest young singers, designer/director Robert Darling, and maestro Stewat Robertson, conducting.

The quintessential libertine, Don Giovanni (or Don Juan) is a womanizer with a list of conquests so long that his servant Leporello is given an aria just to enumerate them.  But more than a comic opera, Mozart's matchless music and Lorenzo da Ponte's libretto convey tragedy. . . and psychological drama. . .and a brilliant moral tale.  Audiences will thrill to the sound of this powerful opera in Hidden Valley's intimate setting, brought dazzlingly to life by a remarkable, talented cast and top-notch directors and designers.