TIRANA, Sept. 10 – Mozart’s Don Giovanni will be the new premiere at the Opera House staging as Italian-Albanian collaboration.
Directed by Italy’s Mariano Bauduin and conducted by Paolo Carbone, the opera features Albanian baritone Armando Likaj starring in the lead role of Don Giovanni.
Italy’s Daniele Terenzi, Marco Ciapon and Enrico Marchesini will also be performing in the opera along with Albaina’s Sokol Tomorri, Eva Golemi and Ulpiana Aliaj.
The opera is scheduled to premiere on September 14, and stage another three evenings on September 16, 18 and 20 at 19:00.
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer.
The impulsive and charismatic Don Giovanni travels through Europe seducing women, accompanied by his long-suffering servant Leporello. But when Don Giovanni commits murder, he unleashes a dark power beyond his control.
Don Giovanni continues to seduce and betray with his usual rapacity. Haunted by the ghost of the murdered man, he decides to invite him to dinner. The ghost urges him to repent – but Don Giovanni will not.
