Don Giovanni
Subtitle: dramma giocoso
By: da Lorenzo da Ponte ; musique, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; un film de Joseph Losey ; en collaboration avec Frantz Salieri ; adaptation, Patricia & Joseph Losey et Frantz Salieri ; Gaumont-Caméra One, Opera Film SRL, Janus Films, et Antenne 2, avec L'Opéra de Paris présentent
Contributors: Raimondi, Ruggero; Macurdy, John; Moser, Edda; Te Kanawa, Kiri; Riegel, Kenneth; Dam, José van; Maazel, Lorin, 1930-2014, conductor; King, Malcolm, 1943-; Caméra one (Firm : France); Opéra de Paris; Gaumont (Firm); Société nationale de télévision en couleur "Antenne 2."; Opera Film Produzione; Janus Films; Olive Films
Publisher: Olive Films
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago]
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Drama; Operas
Other titles: Don Giovanni (Motion picture : 1979)
Description: Filmed on location in Vincenza, Italy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, is translated to film by director Joseph Losey. Set in Seville in the 1600s, a young nobleman Don Giovanni is a well-known philanderer with a long list of conquests.  After he attempts to seduce the beautiful Donna Anna, her father's battle to protect her honor ends in tragedy. Anna and her fiance Don Octavio pledge to seek revenge, while Giovanni continues to charm and trick the local women.
Notes: Release date: Jan. 22, 2013.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Photography, Gerry Fisher ; art director, Alexandre Trauner ; editor, Reginald Beck.

Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kenneth Riegel, José van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Malcolm King, other soloists.

Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera ; Lorin Maazel, conductor.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; anamorphic widescreen; region 1.

Sung in Italian; optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Scene selection: I. Overture; Nos. 1-2 ; II. Nos. 3-8 ; III. Nos. 9-11 ; IV. Nos. 12-13 (Act 1 finale) ; V. Nos. 14-18 ; VI. Nos. 19-21 ; VII. Nos. 22-23 ; VIII. No. 24 (Act 2 finale).