Don Giovanni. [Act 1] / von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Text von Lorenzo da Ponte ; Inszenierung, Carl Ebert ; [eine Produktion der Deutschen Oper Berlin und des Senders Freies Berlin].

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, composer.

Contributor:

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, librettist.

Fricsay, Ferenc, conductor.

Schünemann, Georg, 1884-1945, translator.

Deutsche Oper Berlin, performer.

Sender Freies Berlin, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Standardized Title:

Don Giovanni. Selections

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 minutes)

Other Title:

Punished rake

Dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni, Teil 1 (Act I)

Don Giovanni : Oper in zwei Akten

Place of Publication:

Munich, Bavaria : ArtHaus Musik, 1961.

Language Note:

Sung in German.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The opening of the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 24 September 1961 is always seen in the context of partition of Germany, cemented six weeks earlier, and the construction of the Berlin Wall. The coincidence of the two events did not go unnoticed in the many press reports at the time, with most citing remarks about the city's circumstances by the then Governing Mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt: "Having experienced more in the last few weeks than in an entire generation, a city divided by a wall of coercion and shame is once again making music, producing theatre, staging fine international exhibitions and can at last open the doors of its long-awaited new opera house." For almost twenty years - since the destruction of the former "Deutsches Opernhaus" in November 1943 - Berlin had had to make do with a makeshift stage. Although already in the early stages of a terminal illness, Ferenc Fricsay conducted the inaugural performance. Fricsay died in 1963. Staged by Carl Ebert, the performance featured a cast of singers unparalleled to this day, including Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau in the title role, Elisabeth Grümmer and Pilar Lorengar as Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Donald Grobe, who stepped in at short notice and built an international career on his performance, Walter Berry as Leporello and Erika Köth as Zerlina. The inaugural performance of Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin is available here for the first time on DVD. The recording of the dress rehearsal on 23 September 1961 was broadcast on German national television simultaneously with the premiere on 24 September.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2017).

Written in 1787.

Opera in 2 acts.

Recorded Deutsche Oper Berlin.

OCLC:

1014197116