Don Giovanni Palais Garnier from June 8 to July 13 2019

What is this flame that compels Don Giovanni to seduce subjugate and conquer women one after the other with the fervour and cold indifference of a predator securing his prey to pursue through his conquests some obscure and everelusive objective For his second collaboration with Da Ponte Mozart was to brand the history of opera with a hot iron and forever haunt European culture In this Libertine Punished Kierkegaard invites us to hear the whisperings of temptation the whirlwind of seduction the silence of the moment The MozartDa Ponte cycle continues with a Don Giovanni entrusted to director Ivo Van Hove In the wake of Boris Godunov the director accustomed to examining the political meaning of works presents his second production for the Paris Opera