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 Amazon.com: Mozart: Don Giovanni / Maazel (1979 film) [SOUNDTRACK] [Highlights]: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Theatre National de l'Opera Chorus & Orchestra,Lorin Maazel,Ruggero Raimondi,Kiri Te Kanawa,Malcolm King,John Macurdy,Edda Moser,Teresa Berganza
But this version, which was a film in 1979, is excellent.
The film is a treasure to own, with great acting, filmed in Vicenza Italy, even inside the Olympic Theatre for indoor scenes.
Dramatically, musically, artistically, this 1979 recording surpasses even the much hyped-about Herbert Von Karajan version with Samuel Ramey, Tomosawa Sintow and Furlanetto.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029SK?v=glance   (1636 words)

  
 Opera on DVD
* Mozart - DON GIOVANNI Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa della Casa, Anton Dermata, Erna Berger, Walter Berry; Wilhelm Furtwangler, Film 1955 (DG)
* Beethoven - FIDELIO Elisabeth Soderstrom, Anton de Ridder, Curt Appelgren, Elizabeth Gale, Ian Caley, Robert Allman, Michael Langdon; Bernard Haitink, Glyndebourne 1979 (ArtHaus)
* Gluck - ORFEO ED EURIDICE Janet Baker, Elisabeth Speiser, Elizabeth Gale; Raymond Leppard, Glyndebourne 1982 (Kultur)
opera_on_dvd.home.att.net   (1636 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Don Giovanni
A screen adaptation of the opera was made under the title Don Giovanni in 1979, and was directed by Joseph Losey.
The Danish philosoper Søren Kierkegaard wrote a large essay in his book Either/Or in which he - or at least one of his pseudonyms - defends the claim that Mozart's Don Giovanni is the greatest work of art ever made.
The Don has a plan: Leporello is to pretend to be him and entice Elvira away, leaving the Don, dressed as Leporello, free to seduce her maid.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Don-Giovanni   (771 words)

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