Don Giovanni (1966)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Don Giovanni |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 165 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Walter Felsenstein (theater) Georg Mielke (film) |
| production | German television broadcasting |
| music | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| occupation | |
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Don Giovanni is a theater recording of the German TV broadcaster of Walter Felsenstein's production of the opera of the same name in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Komische Oper Berlin .
action
Since this is a stage production, see: Don Giovanni
production
The translation by Walter Felsenstein and Horst Seeger is based on the libretto created by Lorenzo Da Ponte . The production had its premiere on the occasion of the reopening of the Komische Oper Berlin on December 4, 1966. The orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin was under the direction of Zdeněk Košler . The rehearsals for the members of the Komische Oper dance theater ensemble were performed by Tom Schilling and Irmgard Kern . Sylta Maria Busse designed the costumes and Reinhart Zimmermann created the set .
It was first broadcast on television on December 4, 1966 in the German television program . On February 9, 2019, as part of a Walter Felsenstein retrospective, a performance took place in the Babylon cinema in Berlin , which can be considered the first on a big screen.
A restored version from 2009 is available on DVD.
criticism
Hans Jürgen Schaefer summarized in the New Germany :
“With this fascinating reinterpretation, Mozart's ingenious dramma giocoso grabs the guests in the stalls and in the stands from the first to the last bar. This is realistic music theater as it has been practiced in this house for 19 years. "
Mimosa Künzel had a critical opinion on the television program in the Neue Zeit :
“The recording of a main rehearsal was broadcast. With all due respect, the technical quality of the recording was miserable. To decipher the processes on the small picture format for three hours would have placed enormous demands on the eyes, so it was better to concentrate on the wonderful music, on the voices. An original shipment could hardly have been less 'exposed' than this transmission, although one would have gladly accepted some defects. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 4, 1966, p. 6
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 5, 1966, p. 3
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 7, 1966, p. 4