Don Giovanni - Aix-en-Provence Festival (2025) - Don Giovanni - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2025)

Description

New production.

"Who is dead? You or the old man?" The question that the terrified Leporello asks Don Giovanni at the end of his duel with the Commendatore seems ludicrous, yet doubt creeps in. At the beginning, an elderly man is killed by a younger one, who then seems to want to escape him; at the end, the former returns and drags the latter into death. What link unites these two beings – one seeming to prolong the other like the ages of life? Two faces of the seducer divide our consciences more than ever: the libertine with desirable charisma, the punished dissolute man whose infamy reflects on all. But what does it mean today to be cast into hell? In a bed of love and agony a heart beats, too weak, too strong, thrown into a hallucinatory journey to the confines of limbo. The eighth production of the Festival's most emblematic work is an opportunity for Sir Simon Rattle to return to Mozart at the head of the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio and a lavish cast led by Andrè Schuen; renowned for his penetrating adaptations of classics, English director Robert Icke makes his operatic debut."

More information is available on the official website of the festival.