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This is Mozart like you’ve never heard before. Arguably the world’s greatest opera is sung in English with a brand new, modern translation backed by an electrifying rock orchestra.

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Mozart’s Don Giovanni – A Rock Opera

7 Stages Theatre

The murderous Don Giovanni deceives women with impunity, leaving destruction in his wake. This Don Juan is not just a rakish cad but someone much more sinister. Mozart and Da Ponte’s masterwork explores vengeance and unsatiable desire. Glamour, grit, and the glow of neon infuse this film noir production.

Don Giovanni

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

All peace is followed by war, behind all happiness awaits disaster. Tragedy also shares this universal view, and in his grand opera “Les Troyens”, Hector Berlioz presents it in the face of two women: Cassandra and Dido lose their personal happiness, as it has no place in the struggle between the peoples and heroes, and ultimately lose their life. In the first part of “The Trojans” the seeress Cassandra proclaims the fall of Troy. Being the only one to do so, none believe her. With her entire people, she falls victim to the Greeks’ stratagem. In the second part, Berlioz puts Dido, Queen of Carthage, at the centre of the piece. Her love for the Trojan hero Aeneas turns to hate when he leaves her to found a new Troy.  Berlioz wrote the libretto loosely based on Vergil’s Aeneid. He went his own way with the music, which was never performed in its entirety while the composer lived, to produce grand opéra, spectacular choirs and ballets, along with new form experiments. Les Troyens remains a challenge for musical theatre to this day, and is indeed one of the monumental conceptual pieces of the previous century.

Andrew Gilstrap

Bass-baritone

Events

11 - 21 Apr, 2024

Mozart’s Don Giovanni – A Rock Opera · 7 Stages

21 - 29 Jan, 2023

Don Giovanni · Atlanta Opera

May 9 - Jul 10, 2022

Les Troyens · Bayerische Staatsoper

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