DON GIO­VAN­NI / RE­QUI­EM

Opera, 12+ 3:40, 1 intermission
december 19, Fri Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
19:00
december 22, Mon Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
19:00
december 25, Thu Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
16:00
january 2, Fri Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
19:00
january 10, Sat Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
19:00
january 18, Sun Premiere
KOMISCHE OPER, BERLIN, GERMANY
18:00

The »opera of all operas«, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Schiller Theatre! After the tale of love and loss in Così fan tutte and the social disparities between servants and masters in The Marriage of Figaro, Serebrennikov now completes Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy with arguably the most dangerous of the three operas . . . 

A gentleman who’s a playboy, a servant who’s tired of serving, and a long list of cheated women: Don Giovanni takes what he wants and knows how to throw a magnificent party. The servant Leporello grumbles under his master’s seductive exploits, as he’s the one who has to clean up afterward, comforting and even enlightening the duped. But when Don Giovanni kills the Commendatore in a duel over the honour of his daughter Donna Anna, even Leporello has had enough. But his master is already onto his next victim: Zerlina. It is only his former lover Elvira who refuses to countenance his betrayal and tries to warn the other women about the philanderer—of course in vain. Seducing and deceiving, Don Giovanni simply enjoys gambling with his life, until the ghosts of the past come to haunt him . . . 

With Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte successfully created a masterwork of the operatic canon. In this dramma giocoso or ‘lighthearted drama’, they achieved—through Mozart’s sophisticated psychological composition, spellbinding melodies, and brilliant instrumentation—an extraordinary study of human nature that, in Kirill Serebrennikov’s fearless hands, brings up compelling questions about sex, the power of seduction, the pursuit of individual freedom, and the right to defy societal norms.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dramma giocoso in two acts [1787]
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte



Premiere on April 27, 2025


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AUTHORS
DIRECTOR, SETS AND COSTUMES
KI­RILL SE­REB­RENNI­KOV
MUSICAL DIRECTION
Olek­sandr Yan­ke­vych
CHOREOGRAPHY
Ev­ge­ny Ku­lagin
Ivan Es­tegne­ev
CHOIRS
Da­vid Ca­ve­li­us
LIGHTING DESIGN
Olaf Free­se
Jo­han­nes Scherf­ling
ASSOCIATE SET DESIGNER
Ol­ga Pav­ly­uk
ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER
Tat­ia­na Dol­ma­tovs­ka­ya
DRAMATURGY
Sop­hie Ji­ra
Da­ni­il Or­lov
VIDEO DESIGN
Il­ya Sha­ga­lov
ACTORS
Hu­bert Za­piór
Ky­le Mil­ler
Tom­ma­so Ba­rea
Kse­ni­ia Pro­shi­na
Agus­tín Gó­mez
Bru­no de Sá
Chel­sea Zurflüh
Phi­lipp Mei­er­hö­fer
And­rew Har­ris
Gra­ce Held­rid­ge
Cho­ir so­lo­ists of the Ko­misc­he Oper Ber­lin
Orc­hes­tra of the Ko­misc­he Oper Ber­lin

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