Don Giovanni prides itself in being a dramma giocoso. Not an easy expression to translate, given how starkly contradictory the terms would appear to be. But dig below the surface and you are plunged into a delightful swirl of ambiguities. Nothing here is set in stone: the libertinage is passionate, but couples meet and part. Fate plays tricks with masks, right up until the final challenge.

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Fantasio

Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Opéra de Lausanne

Opera in four acts  Libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis