Mozart: Don Giovanni - dir. Peter Sellars (Part 1 of 3) [English Subtitles]
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2014
- Don Giovanni, KV 527 (1787)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte
Production: Peter Sellars
Don Giovanni: Eugene Perry
Leporello: Herbert Perry
Donna Elvira: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Donna Anna: Dominique Labelle
Don Ottavio: Carroll Freeman
Zerlina: Ai Lan Zhu
Masetto: Elmore James
Commendatore: James Patterson
Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor: Craig Smith
Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
In Peter Sellars' evocative 1990 production of Don Giovanni, the setting of Mozart's drama giocoso is transformed from the aristocratic Seville of the mid 17th century to a row of broken down crack houses on a street in East Harlem in the late 1980s, when New York's long running crack-cocaine epidemic had made eerily desolate slums out of vast swaths of the city. It is here that our beloved Giovanni ekes out an existence as a junkie and street person. And yet despite his circumstances, Giovanni has an unmistakeable hunger for life, which we quickly see can manifest itself in brutal rage. 
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My mom taped this when it aired on PBS and we watched it pretty much weekly for at least a year. I was a middle schooler and definitely had a crush on Leporello. Rewatching it 30+ years later, I'm struck both by the amazing performances and the fact that the 'modern' setting now itself seems like a time capsule of another era.
Eugene Perry, the man portraying Don Giovanni, is my current vocal professor. It is such an honor and privilege to be working with a performer of this caliber.
+BoroB - Are you sure he's not Herbert Perry. ;)
Pretty sure he's Eugene..lol. Unless he's having an identity crisis.
Perry who?
He doesn't sing anymore? I saw him at the Atlanta Opera, performing Don Giovanni, which took influence from this version, which was controversial.
NO WAY! I am so jealous!
Thank you for uploading. Long time I am looking for this performance.
As one who cannot have enough of Don Giovanni, I think this performance is outstanding.
devo dire che è DAVVERO GENIALE come regia.UN ENORME GRAZIE A CHI L'ha caricato :-)
I usually HATE modern adaptations of period pieces but somehow...this just WORKS!
Lieberson nails it! She's fantastic
After all these years - still loving this production. Thank you. Amazing !
This is by far my favorite production - maybe of any opera ever. Thank you for posting!!
I absolutely loved this adaptation of this wonderful opera !! The best I have ever seen
That translation, though... "O che caro galantuomo" = smooth operator! HAHAHAHAHA
Olga Silva - It's an excellent colloquial translation. It catches every nuance of the original.
It is incredibly hard to transpose opera to contemporary settings. No one has done it better than Sellars and company.
All the haters make me laugh out loud. This is pure genious in concept and execution.
😀😍😅
I was married to "Leporello". Watching this process was fascinating.
Produced by the 2014 Polar Music Prize Laureate Peter Sellars. Unforgettable.
Thanks so much for this Opera Nerd. Sellars combines a modern take on the staging and stylisation of DG with a true understanding of the music and sentiment. His vocal casting is brilliant too. Just watch the 'Mask Trio' at 1:22:30 - best rendition on RUclips by a mile. Can't wait for Act 2 2/2.
It seems to me a great musical performance, well played, well sung and well performed orchestrally ⭐⭐
Best Don Giovanni EVER ♥ Peter Sellars is a true genius, so worthy of the Polar Prize.
I first saw Don Giovanni at BYU. It was amazing. I also like how this is set in modern-esque times.
Little very modern...The singers? BRAVISSIMO!!!
My favorite version! Thank you!!!❤
Looking forward for much more of Peter Sellars wonderful Operas! I have already downloaded Act2 1/2 ;-)
thanks so much for posting this
SPLENDID! Thankyou !
I'm really liking this production, even if the libretto (or subtitles I should say) was changed a bit to match the time frame. Normally I'd scoff at that, and I don't usually care for productions in a modern era (although there have been a "few" I have liked.) But there is something about this that I really like. Maybe it's because I'm an 80's baby who lived in Detroit, I don't know. Lol. Great singers by the way too.
Brilliant in every way. This production captures the ugliness, the desperation, the hypocrisy and addictions of these characters and their world. DaPonte and Mozart were not writing a 'pretty' opera.
I lived in NYC during those years. This is how it was. DON GIOVANNI fits right in.
I saw a Mozart opera once with a similar plot.
I like the take on the modern setting they should do it with more operas.
Thank you! I have been looking for this for years! Are you planning to upload the second act? This is my favorite version of Don Giovanni...
"Just shut up, bitch. You'll never find out who I am." I am having a laughing fit !!!!
I was scrolling comments during opening credits... saw this and paused the video to say wtf am I about to watch? I came here from a wikipedia footnote at 2:30am... is this real???
so Leporello has kind of a thing for Elvira? I LOVE IT.
Check out where the palace setting was filmed. WOW!
I connect with so many things here, has to be what it is. Even on a personal level. Except no one was killed... :P
It's kind of weird Leporello looks so much like his boss, but, uh, I'm still enjoying this a lot so far.
Update: I fucking love this production.
Wow... I'd never seen this before but it's absolutely fantastic! I'm dying to see the second act. Is the DVD really not available any more?!
There are copies available from time to time on sites like ebay and amazon, but unless you get lucky, they're usually going for over $200 (USD) for the 2 DVD set. There seem to be a fair number of copies floating around at reasonable prices in NZ and Australia. You may be find a copy available at a small record shop that's not linked to one of the big online retailers. Or you can always borrow a copy. While you might find a local community library that still has it, you're more likely to find it at a major university library. WorldCat shows 151 libraries have that a copy on DVD and an additional 55 libraries with a copy on VHS. www.worldcat.org/oclc/61145675
Part 1 of Act II has been uploaded! ruclips.net/video/BG-66iMiv34/видео.html
I keep coming back to check for the last part of Don G (and the 2nd half of Cosi)... (Laughs) You've clearly sparked something.
Piękna opera i bardzo ciekawa inscenizacja. Poszukuję jeszcze Petra Sellarsa operę Wesele Figara. Czy masz może to nagranie albo wiesz gdzie mogę je zanależć?
The First Scenes look like something after the Battle Of Stalingrad....idk....anyway an epic Opera
I lived in a condo complex like this, in Atlanta(Clarkston to be precise). It was 3 story wooden garden apartments built in the 70's that had deteriorated badly. I wasn't unhappy about it burning down.
I'm M9ZART-dependent! The best!
Mozart? 3x/day! =Sunshine, helth!
2:48 Even rats know that crack is whack.
anyone know where the champagne aria is? i can’t find it.
1:08:29
The Perrys (and Lieberson) do great here.
But why is the scene set in the slums? Don Giovanni should be a knight, Don Ottavio and Donna Anna should be high-born and Donna Elvira their peer. The point should be Don Giovanni's brazen double-facedness in spite of and amidst his social status; he's no street punk. And no matter how dire or scary the situation, he never shows desperation or fear; it may be out of pride, or mindlessness, or just folly, but he'd rather go hand in hand with the devil than admitting any wrong or regret.
Agreed -- the spirit of the play seems lost in the modernization. It's as if more attention was paid towards re-interpreting the settings and the costumes instead of adapting Mozart's wit and lively characters into a modern scene.
Brilliant - next thing you know they'll get the cast to dress up in silly costumes and set it in1787.
***** With all due respect to "Pe Callahan", I think it's very important to stage an opera at the same time and place as when written and premiered, including sets and costumes. I think it's important in order to get the full flavor of the opera as envisioned by the composer and the librettist.
***** I do understand your point and would seem to be perfectly OK with you. And of course, it's a matter of taste and preference. My popinion is best stated in the following link:annapolisopera.org/changing-operas-setting-good-bad-idea/
George Sigalos Yes of course but we need to get a wider audience as possible so more enjoy Mozart's music.
James Murray Point well made, James - that would be something positive.
George Sigalos Thing is I can do either way - after-all its still great music. Hope that still remains positive.
Is Don Giovanni Act2 2/2 coming soon? :-)
Yes, it is still coming. I just have to edit and re-encode the video.
Thank you! I think I've shared this link with you already but in case I didn't, enjoy… culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/einstein-on-the-beach-au-theatre-du-chatelet-146813
9:15, ma mi par che venga gente
1:20 time stamp.
When I saw this production of Don Giovanni with these twin brothers in the role of the
Don and Leporello ( about 1991), and the production was in Salzburg Austria at one of
Festspiel performances, it was produced in period era costumes. This production could
perhaps to some be a bit odd set as it were in Harlem, New York in the United States
a country that has been traditionally paranoid and nasty about black males receiving even
occasional recognition as opera singers (see you-tubes videos of Baritones Jules Bledsoe and Robert McFerrin who should have become household names!) let alone two
twin black brothers singing major roles! Assuming this production was also done in Europe where black males have been much more, how shall I say, 'acceptable' to white audiences as far back as the 1920's when Tenor Roland Hayes made his internationally acclaimed debut in Germany; perhaps those who crafted this production were, in a manner of speaking, making a more than subtle point concerning social as well as racial
issues here in this country in particular. And just think, one Italian detective on an Oprah
Winfrey talk show broadcast made the blatant statement that "black men don't sing
opera!", and when one can on this very you-tube website see videos of Luciano Pavarotti
singing a concert with James Brown and Barry White, and basketball player Charles
Barkley having an opera singer's voice dubbed in as his own on a t.v. commercial,it makes one wonder just exactly what message has been ingrained in the american mind and this world in general that allows us to see black female prima-donnas yet no black males. In my opinion it is a message quite intentional and shameful in the least.
Those who have an issue about my presentation here are invited to view the excellent interview of Mr. Tom Reiss who spent four years of intensive research in France in order to excavate unacknowledged historical proof concerning what I feel is at root cause of this problem, fear of the black male. Name of the book discussed in this interview by Reiss here on you-tube, "The Black Count, The Real Count of Monte Cristo".
Enjoy it as I did!
Erick Dean Tippett
Retired Musician/Teacher
Chicago, Illinois
"American mind"- nonsense. For an American music teacher, you seem to be extremely ignorant of the history of American singers and performers, otherwise you wouldn't write such bull. Evidently you've never heard of Paul Robeson, a Black male opera singer, athlete and socialist, and one of the best opera singers in American history. And he was accepted by the American operatic society during a time when Blacks couldn't visit the same schools as Whites in America, and weren't even considered part of the human race by Europeans.
As for modern times, Europe's current treatment of colored people is absolutely abysmal. In America, it's unthinkable that a group of White teenagers would stop a Black mother and her child from leaving the tram, and yet I've witnessed that happening in Germany. Just because Europe uses the occasional colonial token in their entertainment says very little about their tolerance of foreigners -- let's not forget that Nazi Germany gave the highest athletic medals to Jewish athletes during the Munich Olympics (would you use THAT as proof that Nazi Germany was more tolerant of Jews than the USA???).
Mr Tippett,
I appreciate your comments. The Perry twins were class mates of mine in graduate schools at UA in Tucson. Best young men ever! I will look up your reference to Tom Reiss’s research in France. Thank you for your comments about these two great singers and the American search for redemption.
Don Ottavio from NYPD? Wow that's interesting.
9:36 i like what hes doing...mmm this opera is making me...mmm..lalalalalala..mmmmm aaaahhhhh
I love Don Giovanni and have always hated this performance. Just seeing Don Giovanni shoot the Commendatore again brought back all the reasons why I loathed this and especially Peter Sellers.
...eew
I am italian and the translation is absolutley wrong, absolutley. if you don't know italian you are really losing something, you should find some other translation, trust me.
anyway thanks a lot for the video :-)
overture is too long
Ha-ha! Do you want address Mozart ?
@@janen6038 Ma'am, this is a 6 y/o comment
'too many notes'
Wonderful singers but Don Ottavio why can’t he sing with vibrato?? It’s so annoying!
Nope
If Peter Sellars updated this, would Don be Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein?
I just viewed leporello's aria del catalogo (because i was learning Italian). Sellars' version is really "me too" all over. The man is a genius who saved opera from the inertia elite.
@@luczomers8270 I could see Donna Elvira and Donna Anna being part of #Metoo trying to protect Zerlina from the Don.
It was meant to be progressive, I get it, and black singers were rare on America's and Europe's stages back then... but stereotyping black men as knife and gun wielding pimps and drug addicts throwing temper tantrums, well I don't think that was really helpful.
Suonata bene, cantata anche bene, ma la scenografia, l' ambientazione nonchè la recitazione fanno pena.
Hell... what a crap!!! Horrible production.
Excellent singing with Lieberson and Perry; but production, in my view, far too self-conscious, earnest, 'relevant' and mannered. Too much like 'telly-noir', kitchen-sink-skool and West Side Story. Seen it all before.
The imagining of this work is laughable and not in a good way. Anyone can be different. That doesn't mean it's worth the effort.
Hell... what a crap!!! Horrible production.