Mozart gets in on the ghostly act: The Commandatore scene from "Don Giovanni"

>> Saturday, October 25, 2008


Considered Mozart's darkest opera, Don Giovanni, is the tale of the notorious Don Jaun. In the final scene, Don Giovanni is visited by the ghost of the Commandatore, who he murdered in the opening scene of the opera. The apparition comes to invite Don Giovanni to "dine" with him, offering the libertine the opportunity to repent of his wicked ways. Don Giovanni refuses and is dragged off to hell by a host of grotesque and frightening minions.

This fabulous 1990 production features Samuel Ramey as Don Giovanni, Kurt Moll as the ghost of the Commandatore, and Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Giovanni's comic side kick, Leporello.


2 comments:

Kay Dennison October 25, 2008 at 9:53 AM  

I love that opera -- & thi is a performance I'd love to see in uts entirety!

Tess Kincaid October 25, 2008 at 4:31 PM  

This ghost scene always gives me goosebumps!! Willies!!! (gorgeous willies)

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