Metropolitan Opera · 2025–26 season

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

The story

Dissolute Don gets what he deserves.

The hero's fate

Dragged to hell by demons

The cast

Don GiovanniBass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen^* Second cast of the 2025–26 revival
LeporelloBass-baritone Tommaso Barea^*
Donna AnnaSoprano Guanqun Yu^*
Donna ElviraSoprano Anita Hartig^*
ZerlinaSoprano Andrea Carroll^*
Don OttavioTenor Paul Appleby^*
CommendatoreBass Soloman Howard^*
MasettoBass-baritone Brandon Cedel^*

* Cast for the run; a cover may have sung this night.

The production

Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Director: Ivo van Hove
Production: 2022
Length: 3 h 16 min

The opera

Premiere: 1787
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: Italian

Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; full title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally 'The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as opera buffa). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theatre (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".

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