MOZART’S DON GIOVANNI

A fully staged performance

with singers from

ROYAL ACADEMY OPERA and

AMERSHAM FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

John Ramster (Director) Iain Ledingham (Conductor)

Don Giovanni  Seung-Wook Seong     Leporello  Nicholas Warden
Donna Anna  Claire Watkins    Donna Elvira  Julia Sporsen
Don Ottavio  Richard Rowe    Zerlina  Anna Graca
Masetto  Emilien Hamel    Il Commendatore  Piotr Lempa

The most dramatic and intense of Mozart’s operas depicts the last days of the fascinating and totally amoral seducer in music of extraordinary beauty and dramatic power. The final scene, in which the Commendatore returns from beyond the grave to exact vengeance on his killer, has never been surpassed. All the characters have wonderful music to sing and highlights from this extraordinary Dramma Giocosa include Leporello’s celebrated “catalogue” Aria, Don Giovanni’s bewitching Serenade, his seductive Duet with Zerlina “La ci darem la mano”, Ottavio’s exquisite “Dalla sua pace” and Donna Anna’s magnificent outburst “Or saiche l’onore”. Each of the two great Finales is a tour de force of music and drama and we are thrilled to be presenting this masterpiece to celebrate the 25th Amersham Festival of Music.

Our Festival Chamber Orchestra will accompany a cast of outstanding young singers, present and former students from Royal Academy Opera, the highly succesful opera course at the Royal Academy of Music.

John Ramster is a freelance opera producer and has been Drama Lecturer for the Royal Academy of Music for the last four years. He is an Honorary Associate of the Academy. His recent shows include Hansel and Gretel (Opera Theatre Ireland) L’Elisir d’amore and Don Giovanni (Ponte da Lima Festival, Portugal), La Finta Giardiniera and Rinaldo (Royal Academy Opera). He is also a writer, his novel Ladies Man having been translated into seven foreign editions.

Tickets: £25, £20