Barrie Kosky directs Mozart: Don Giovanni

Although billed as a comic opera, Don Giovanni explores a full spectrum of human emotions: love and hate, fear, fury and forgiveness. In the first instalment of his cycle of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas for the Wiener Staatsoper, celebrated Australian director Barrie Kosky creates a minimalist staging focused on the piece's fascinatingly flawed characters – from the predatory anti-hero Don Giovanni and his traumatised sidekick Leporello to the women Giovanni so relentlessly pursues. As Kosky puts it, "characters like Don Giovanni are like mirrors in which we see ourselves. Sometimes the image we see is unappetizing". Philippe Jordan conducts an acclaimed international cast led by bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen.