Conductor
Henry Holt
Stage Director
Hans Hartleb
Stage Designer
Miguel Romero
Costume Designer
Andreas Reinhardt
Lighting Designer
Russell Pyle
Associate Conductor
Randolph Mauldin
Chorus Director
Nick Strimple
Wigs & Makeup
Charles Elsen & Associates
Dennis Bergevin, Director
Scenery Executed by
Giatheatrics & Sets L.A.
Lighting Executed by
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Don Giovanni
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Edited for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe by Wolfgang Plath and Wolfgang Rehm.
By Arrangement with Magnamusic-Baton, Inc. for Baerenreiter-Verlag, publisher and copyright owner.
Tuesday July 9, 1985
Friday July 12, 1985
Saturday July 13, 1985
with
Los Angeles Opera Theater Opera Orchestra
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Michael Gallup |
| Don Giovanni |
Jeffrey Wells*
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| Donna Anna |
Kay Griffel* |
| Commendatore |
Francesco Sorianello*
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| Don Ottavio |
Jonathan Mack |
| Donna Elvira |
Constance Cloward* |
| Zerlina |
Deborah McClung* |
| Masetto |
Richard Cowan* |
Peasants, musicians, dancers and demons
The action takes place in 17th Century Seville.
First performed at the National Theater, Prague, on October 29. 1787.
First performed by Los Angeles Opera Theater on July 9, 1985 at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles.
*Opera Theater debut
Los Angeles Opera Theater's production of DON GIOVANNI is dedicated to Johanna Dordick. This entire season was planned under her direction and it was through her vision and remarkable efforts that Los Angeles Opera Theater came into being. She has made an outstanding contribution to the development of opera in Los Angeles.
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NOTE: Dordick had resigned prior to the opening of Don Giovanni, the first production of the new Season. The balance of the Season -- which had been planned, budgeted and contracted by Dordick -- was to include:
A new production of Alban Berg's LULU (Three-Act version) directed by Hans Neugebauer; Mezzo Soprano Susan Quittmeyer (a favorite of LAOT audiences) in Concert; and new productions (double bill) of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci starring Jon Vickers and staged by Frank Corsaro.
After several postponements by the new management under Henry Holt, the board of directors cancelled those events. (See LAOT History, Part II).
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