SLDfest: Don Giovanni | headfirst-2016

Creative Team:

Director/Producer - Sophie Gilpin

Conductor - Sonia Ben Santamaria

Production Designer - Anna Bonomelli

Lighting Designer - Marco Alba

Language Coach - Fiona Murray

Assistant Director - Louise Bakker

Cast:

Don Giovanni - Matthew Sprange

Donna Anna - Caroline Modiba

Donna Elvira - Elizabeth Roberts

Leporello - Samuel Pantcheff

Zerlina - Siân Cameron

Don Ottavio - Jorge Navarro Colorado

Masetto - Ian Beadle

Il Commendatore - Stephen Holloway

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Special Event: Sir Thomas Allen joins us for a masterclass on Sunday 29th October at 2.30pm

Tickets: £12 or £25 for the masterclass and the evening performance of Don Giovanni.

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Mozart’s Don Giovanni is a story of an outsider. The Stranger who walks on a knife-edge between two worlds: Giovanni lives resolutely outside convention, treading the fine lines between vitality and humanity; between life and death; between the natural and the supernatural. He lives solely for his own pleasure and women are seduced by his desire for them. After all, to be desired is – in return – desirable. He wants women to want him. Until they do, of course.

This operatic masterpiece grapples with the complexity of human nature; contradictions, hidden desires, and darkest fears. By exploring the conflict between immorality and amorality, and - crucially - by telling the story from the women’s perspective, this production will steer away from the opera’s traditionally male gaze, and leave the audience questioning their preconceptions. Returning to London after four and five star reviews for La Bohème in 2014, HeadFirst Productions promises provocation, dark humour and sensuality.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles and performed with a small orchestral ensemble.

Dates: 26th October - 3rd November 2017, 7.30pm (Sunday 6pm)

Tickets: £15 (£12)