Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (1961)

Music

Of the five premieres produced during a four-month period, Mozart's "Don Giovanni" on the first night attracted an illustrious audience. In addition to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany and a selection of diplomats and politicians, high-ranking guests included theatrical directors from West Germany and other Western European countries, composers, conductors, actors, writers, painters and sculptors, not to mention rectors and lecturers from Berlin's universities and the world's leading music critics. [...] The success was commensurate with the significance of the occasion. All involved in the performance received countless ovations in front of the magnificent yellow curtain. The new building - and the new stage with its state-of-the-art technology - had shown itself to be more than capable of handling Mozart's most demanding work.

Casts

	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Don Giovanni
	Josef Greindl as Komtur
	Elisabeth Grümmer as Donna Anna
	Donald Grobe as Don Ottavio
	Pilar Lorengar as Donna Elvira
	Ivan Sardi as Masetto
	Erika Köth as Zerlina
	Walter Berry as Leporello

Crew