Tickets for the opera Don Giovanni at Arena di Verona!

The first opera on stage on June 22nd 2012 is Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart.

Repeat performances on June 29th; July 6th, 12rd, 18th, and 25th.

The main characters

The story takes place in Seville in the sixteenth century.

Don Giovanni: very licentious noble knight
Leporello: Don Giovanni's servant
Commendatore: The Lord of Seville and the father of Donna Anna Donna Anna: Commander's daughter and betrothed to Don Ottavio
Don Ottavio: fiancé of Donna Anna
Donna Elvira: noble lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni
Zerlina: farmer courted by Don Giovanni
Masetto: betrothed, very jealous of Zerlina
Peasants and Peasant: Masetto and Zerlina friends
Servants: servants and gendarmes of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio
Musicians: players of Don Giovanni
Demons and Devils: entities called hell by the statue of the Commendatore to drag Don Giovanni to hell

Click here to see the interpreters of this opera

The synopsis

The Commander rushed to defend the honor of his daughter Donna Anna, is killed by the boldness seducer, the noble Don Giovanni: The Duke Ottavio, Donna Anna's betrothed, swears to find the murderess, while they flee from the darkness along with the indoor servant Leporello.

Reached by Donna Elvira, one of past lovers, Don Giovanni still leaves the scene, leaving Leporello to sciorinare the "catalog" of sexual conquests of the great seducer. Meanwhile, the festivities are taking place for the wedding of two peasants, Zerlina and Masetto: Don Giovanni seduces the young bride and, with threats and flattery, able to be alone with her. But there comes Donna Elvira, Zerlina, which subtracts the designs of Don Giovanni.

Donna Anna recognizes the voice of Don Giovanni that he is the murderess of her father, accompanied by Don Ottavio and Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni goes to the castle, where he organized the festival is taking place "in honor" of Zerlina. Here's Don Giovanni is unmasked and is relied upon him the vengeance of heaven.

In the second place, after other deceptions perpetrated with the exchange of clothes with Leporello, Don Giovanni takes refuge in a graveyard, where he mockingly invites the statue to dinner the Commander. Returning to his castle, Don Juan sits at the table, rejecting a last attempt to do so repent of Donna Elvira. Even when they reach the statue of the Commendatore, who invited him to repent, Don Juan did not retreat. It is the fatal hour, the earth is torn and Don Giovanni was engulfed in flames.

Finally, Zerlina and Masetto celebrate their wedding, Donna Anna and Don Ottavio design their union, announced that Donna Elvira wanting to retire to a convent and Leporello goes to the inn, "to seek the best master.".