Pierangelo Pelucchi, Fondazione Orchestra Stabile Gaetano Donizetti - Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni (2006)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.76 Gb (DVD9) | 130 min
Classical | Bongiovanni | Sub: Italiano, Deutsch, English, Francais
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.76 Gb (DVD9) | 130 min
Classical | Bongiovanni | Sub: Italiano, Deutsch, English, Francais
The booklet flags the “impressive similarity” between Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni, premiered in February 1787, and Mozart’s masterpiece first heard in Prague later the same year. True, there are occasional superficial musical resemblances; and while Da Ponte despised the librettist Giovanni Bertati as a “dramatic cobbler”, he was happy to appropriate many of his ideas for his own Don Giovanni libretto. What strikes you time and again, though, is the fathomless gulf between Gazzaniga’s casually structured one-act romp, designed as a play-within-a-play for the Venice Carnival, and Mozart’s tragi-comic masterpiece.