HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
www.houstongrandopera.org
David Gockley
David Gockley
General Director
Presents
MOZART'S
DON GIOVANNI
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA Presents Mozart's Don Giovanni. Villagers celebrate the engagement of Zerlina
and Masetto in the 1986 production of Don Giovanni. Photo by Jim Caldwell.
The second half of HGO's fall repertory is Mozart's Don Giovanni. Danish baritone Bo Skovhus
(the title role in 1998's Billy Budd) returns to Houston in his first American production of Don
Giovanni, to portray history's most famous seducer, who gets his cosmic comeuppance in this
comic drama. Among his would-be conquests are Bulgarian soprano Alexandrina Pendatschanska,
making her HGO debut as Donna Anna, American soprano Pamela Armstrong (the Countess in
1998's The Marriage of Figaro) as Donna Elvira and soprano Nicole Heaston (Susannah in 1998's
The Marriage of Figaro) as the servant girl Zerlina. The great Italian baritone Alessandro Corbelli
(Dandini in 1995's La Cenerentola) will sing Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant.
Goran Jarvefelt
Carl Friedrich Oberle
Conceived by the late Goran Jarvefelt, with sets and costumes by Carl Friedrich Oberle, this
classic production will be staged by Harry Silverstein. The young Dutch conductor Lawrence
Renes (The Marriage of Figaro, 1998) will lead the Houston Symphony.
Lawrence Renes
Harry Silverstein
Don Giovanni opens on October 29 with further performances on October 31m, November 3, 6,
9, 12, and 14m, 1999. The opera will be sung in Italian with English surtitles. Don Giovanni is a
Houston Grand Opera production. Major funding support provided by Exxon.
A Scene from HOUSTON GRAND OPERA's 1986 Production of Don Giovanni. Now Playing at The Wortham Center October 29 and 31 (matinee), November 3, 6, 9, 12 & 14 (matinee) Photo by Jim Caldwell.