Don Giovanni (1979)

Don Giovanni: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa. Mozart’s opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna’s father. He is then chased by Donna Anna’s fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.

“To make a movie based on an opera is a different thing from filming an opera on stage. Cinema and opera are 2 different forms of art each one with its specific techniques. Nevertheless one can be at the otheru0026#39;s service and if the match is excellent the merits of them both will be enhanced. Thatu0026#39;s what happens with this excellent movie where we can enjoy Mozartu0026#39;s music and the singing talents of such extraordinary artists like Kiri Te Kanawa and others besides a lot of gorgeous and dynamic movie images, sceneries, shots and superb cut and editing. The plot everyone knows: the adventures and misadventures of D. Giovanni the king of philanderers of all times and a more or less disguised attack on aristocracy and its immoral behaviour. We are on the eve of the French Revolution and as everybody also knows Mozart was a freemason and a democrat.”