Don Giovanni discography

This is a partial discography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

Audio recordings

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Year Don Giovanni
Leporello
Donna Anna
Don Ottavio
Donna Elvira
Zerlina
Masetto
Commendatore
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1934 Ezio Pinza
Virgilio Lazzari
Rosa Ponselle
Tito Schipa
Maria Müller
Editha Fleischer
Louis D'Angelo
Emanuel List
Tullio Serafin
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus[2]
CD: Andromeda
Cat: ANDRCD 9026
1936 John Brownlee
Salvatore Baccaloni
Ina Souez
Koloman von Pataky
Luise Helletsgruber
Audrey Mildmay
Roy Henderson
David Franklin
Fritz Busch
Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus
78 rpm: HMV
Cat: DB 2961-2983
LP: RCA Victor
Cat: DM 423/424/425
CD: Naxos
Cat: 8.110135-37
1937 Ezio Pinza
Virgilio Lazzari
Elisabeth Rethberg
Dino Borgioli
Luise Helletsgruber
Margit Bokor
Karl Ettl
Herbert Alsen
Bruno Walter
Vienna Philharmonic
CD: Andromeda
Cat: ANDRCD 5126
1942 Ezio Pinza
Alexander Kipnis
Rose Bampton
Charles Kullman
Jarmila Novotná
Bidu Sayão
Mack Harrell
Norman Cordon
Bruno Walter
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Andromeda
Cat: ANDRCD 9040
1944 Ezio Pinza
Salvatore Baccaloni
Florence Kirk
Charles Kullman
Eleanor Steber
Bidu Sayão
Mack Harrell
Nicola Moscona
George Szell
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Walhall
Cat: WLCD 0106
1947 Ezio Pinza
Salvatore Baccaloni
Regina Resnik
Charles Kullman
Polyna Stoska
Nadine Conner
Lorenzo Alvary
Jerome Hines
Max Rudolf
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Omega
Cat: 648
1950 Tito Gobbi
Erich Kunz
Ljuba Welitsch
Anton Dermota
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Irmgard Seefried
Alfred Poell
Josef Greindl
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 0094633679924
1953 Cesare Siepi
Otto Edelmann
Elisabeth Grümmer
Anton Dermota
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Erna Berger
Walter Berry
Raffaele Arié
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
(recorded at Salzburg Festival)
CD: Orfeo
Cat: C 624 043 D
1954 Cesare Siepi
Otto Edelmann
Elisabeth Grümmer
Anton Dermota
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Erna Berger
Walter Berry
Dezső Ernster
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra and chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 336 799-2
1955 Cesare Siepi
Fernando Corena
Suzanne Danco
Anton Dermota
Lisa Della Casa
Hilde Güden
Walter Berry
Kurt Böhme
Josef Krips
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera chorus
CD: Decca Records
Cat: 478 1389
Giuseppe Taddei
Italo Tajo
Mary Curtis Verna
Cesare Valletti
Carla Gavazzi
Elda Ribetti
Vito Susca
Antonio Zerbini
Max Rudolf
RAI Orchestra Sinfonica and chorus
LP: Everest
Cat: S-403/3 CD: Warner-Fonit
Cat: 0927 43561-2
George London
Erich Kunz
Lisa Della Casa
Anton Dermota
Sena Jurinac
Irmgard Seefried
Walter Berry
Ludwig Weber
Karl Böhm
Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus
(sung in German)
CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 74321 57737 2
George London
Walter Berry
Hilde Zadek
Léopold Simoneau
Sena Jurinac
Graziella Sciutti
Eberhard Wächter
Ludwig Weber
Rudolf Moralt
Vienna Symphony
Wiener Kammerchor
CD: Philips
Cat: 438 674-2
1956 Antonio Campo
Marcello Curtis
Teresa Stich-Randall
Nicolai Gedda
Suzanne Danco
Anna Moffo
André Vessières
Raffaele Arié
Hans Rosbaud
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 7243 5 72195 2 5
(with Le Nozze di Figaro)
1958 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Karl-Christian Kohn
Sena Jurinac
Ernst Haefliger
Maria Stader
Irmgard Seefried
Ivan Sardi
Walter Kreppel
Ferenc Fricsay
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 000289 463 6292 1
1959 Eberhard Wächter,
Giuseppe Taddei,
Joan Sutherland,
Luigi Alva,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
Graziella Sciutti,
Piero Cappuccilli,
Gottlob Frick
Carlo Maria Giulini,
Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 747260-8
Cesare Siepi
Fernando Corena
Birgit Nilsson
Cesare Valletti
Leontyne Price
Eugenia Ratti
Heinz Blankenburg
Arnold van Mill
Erich Leinsdorf
Vienna Philharmonic
CD: London
Cat: 444594
George London
Ezio Flagello
Eleanor Steber
Cesare Valletti
Lisa Della Casa
Laurel Hurley
Theodor Uppman
William Wilderman
Karl Böhm
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: The Met Guild
Cat:
1960 Eberhard Wächter
Walter Berry
Leontyne Price
Cesare Valletti
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Graziella Sciutti
Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
(recorded at Salzburg Festival)
CD: MYTO
Cat: 00317
1962 George London
Benno Kusche
Hildegard Hillebrecht
Nicolai Gedda
Sena Jurinac
Anneliese Rothenberger
Albrecht Peter
Gottlob Frick
Joseph Keilberth
Munich Opera Festival
CD: Golden Melodram
Cat:
1966 Nicolai Ghiaurov
Walter Berry
Claire Watson
Nicolai Gedda
Christa Ludwig
Mirella Freni
Paolo Montarsolo
Franz Crass
Otto Klemperer
Philharmonia Orchestra
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 77776384153
1967 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Ezio Flagello
Birgit Nilsson
Peter Schreier
Martina Arroyo
Reri Grist
Alfredo Mariotti
Martti Talvela
Karl Böhm
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG 429 870-2
1968 Gabriel Bacquier
Donald Gramm
Joan Sutherland
Werner Krenn
Pilar Lorengar
Marilyn Horne
Leonardo Monreale
Clifford Grant
Richard Bonynge
English Chamber Orchestra
CD: Decca
Cat:
1970 Nicolai Ghiaurov
Geraint Evans
Gundula Janowitz
Stuart Burrows
Teresa Żylis-Gara
Olivera Miljakovic
Rolando Panerai
Victor von Halem
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
(recorded at Salzburg Festival)
CD: Orfeo
Cat: C 615 033 D
Nicolai Ghiaurov,
Sesto Bruscantini
Gundula Janowitz
Alfredo Kraus
Sena Jurinac
Olivera Miljakovic
Walter Monachesi
Dimiter Petkov
Carlo Maria Giulini
RAI Symphony orchestra and chorus
(recorded on 12 May 1970 in Rome)
CD: Opera Hommage
Cat: 7001835
1973 Ingvar Wixell
Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Martina Arroyo
Stuart Burrows
Kiri Te Kanawa
Mirella Freni
Richard Van Allan
Luigi Roni
Sir Colin Davis
Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 422 541-2
1977 Sherrill Milnes
Walter Berry
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Peter Schreier
Teresa Żylis-Gara
Edith Mathis
Dale Duesing
John Macurdy
Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera chorus
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG 477 5655
1978 Bernd Weikl
Gabriel Bacquier
Margaret Price
Stuart Burrows
Sylvia Sass
Lucia Popp
Alfred Šramek
Kurt Moll
Georg Solti
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Opera Chorus
Jeffrey Tate (harpsichord)[3]
LPs: Decca D164D4
(recorded at the Kingsway Hall in October and November 1978)
1983 Thomas Allen
Richard Van Allan
Carol Vaness
Keith Lewis
Maria Ewing
Elizabeth Gale
John Rawnsley
Dimitri Kavrakos
Bernard Haitink
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
EMI, Virgin Classics
Cat: 3 58638 2
1985 Samuel Ramey
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Gösta Winbergh
Agnes Baltsa
Kathleen Battle
Alexander Malta
Paata Burchuladze
Herbert von Karajan,
Berlin Philharmonic orchestra
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: DG DG 419 179-2
Alan Titus
Rolando Panerai
Júlia Várady
Thomas Moser
Arleen Auger
Edith Mathis
Rainer Scholze
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Rafael Kubelík
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bayerischen Rundfunks chorus
CD: RCA Classics (BMG)
Cat: 74321 25284 2
Hermann Prey
Malcolm King
Cheryl Studer
Gösta Winbergh
Gundula Janowitz
Krisztina Laki
Marcel Vanaud
Sergei Koptchak
Jeffrey Tate
Orchestre National de France
Choeur de Radio France
(recorded on 20 March 1985)
CD: Houseofopera-dot-com
Cat:
1988 Thomas Hampson
László Polgár
Edita Gruberová
Hans Peter Blochwitz
Roberta Alexander
Barbara Bonney
Anton Scharinger
Robert Holl
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Dutch National Opera chorus
CD: Teldec Classics
Cat: 022924418426
1989 Håkan Hagegård
Gilles Cachemaille
Arleen Auger
Nico van der Meel
Della Jones
Barbara Bonney
Bryn Terfel
Kristinn Sigmundsson
Arnold Östman
Drottningholm Palace Theatre orchestra and chorus
CD: L'oiseau-lyre
Cat: 425 943-2
1990 William Shimell
Samuel Ramey
Cheryl Studer
Frank Lopardo
Carol Vaness
Susanne Mentzer
Natale de Carolis
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Riccardo Muti
Vienna Philharmonic
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
CD: EMI
Cat: 7 54255 2
1990 Thomas Allen
Simone Alaimo
Sharon Sweet
Francisco Araiza
Karita Mattila
Marie McLaughlin
Claudio Otelli
Robert Lloyd
Sir Neville Marriner
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 473 959-2
1992 Andreas Schmidt
Gregory Yurisich
Amanda Halgrimson
John Mark Ainsley
Lynne Dawson
Nancy Argenta
Gerald Finley
Alastair Miles
Roger Norrington
London Classical Players
Schütz Choir of London
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 7 54859 2
1994 Rodney Gilfry
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Ľuba Orgonášová
Christoph Prégardien
Charlotte Margiono
Eirian James
Julian Clarkson
Andrea Silvestrelli
John Eliot Gardiner
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
CD: DG Archiv
Cat: 445 870-2
1995 Bo Skovhus
Alessandro Corbelli
Christine Brewer
Jerry Hadley
Felicity Lott
Nuccia Focile
Umberto Chiummo
Umberto Chiummo
Charles Mackerras
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & chorus
CD: Telarc
Cat: 80726
1997 Bryn Terfel
Michele Pertusi
Renée Fleming
Herbert Lippert
Ann Murray
Monica Groop
Roberto Scaltriti
Mario Luperi
Sir Georg Solti
London Philharmonic orchestra
CD: London
Cat: 455 500-2
1998 Simon Keenlyside
Bryn Terfel
Carmela Remigio
Uwe Heilmann
Soile Isokoski
Patrizia Pace
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Matti Salminen
Claudio Abbado
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat:
1999 Peter Mattei
Gilles Cachemaille
Carmela Remigio
Mark Padmore
Véronique Gens
Lisa Larsson
Till Fechner
Gudjon Oskarsson
Daniel Harding
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
CD: Virgin Classics
Cat:
2000 Garry Magee
Andrew Shore
Majella Cullagh
Barry Banks
Vivian Tierney
Mary Plazas
Dean Robinson
Clive Bayley
David Parry
Philharmonia orchestra
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
CD: Chandos Records
Cat: CHA 3057 (in English)
Bo Skovhus
Renato Girolami
Adrianne Pieczonka
Torsten Kerl
Regina Schörg
Ildikó Raimondi
Boaz Daniel
Janusz Monarcha
Michael Halász
Nicolaus Estherházy Sinfonia
Hungarian Radio chorus
CD: Naxos Records
Cat: 8.660080-82
2006 Johannes Weisser
Lorenzo Regazzo
Olga Pasichnyk
Kenneth Tarver
Alex Penda
Sunhae Im
Nikolay Borchev
Allessandro Guerzoni
René Jacobs
Freiburger Barockorchester
RIAS Kammerchor
CD: Harmonia Mundi
Cat: HMC901964.66
2012 Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Luca Pisaroni
Diana Damrau
Rolando Villazón
Joyce DiDonato
Mojca Erdmann
Konstantin Wolff
Vitalij Kowaljow
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 0289 477 9878 1
2016 Dimitris Tiliakos
Vito Priante
Myrtò Papatanasiu
Kenneth Tarver
Karina Gauvin
Christina Gansch
Guido Loconsolo
Mika Kares
Teodor Currentzis
MusicAeterna
CD: Sony Music Entertainment
Cat: 88985316032

Video recordings

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Year Cast (Don Giovanni, Leporello,
Donna Anna, Don Ottavio,
Donna Elvira, Zerlina,
Masetto, Commendatore)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1954 Cesare Siepi
Otto Edelmann
Elisabeth Grümmer
Anton Dermota
Lisa Della Casa
Erna Berger
Walter Berry
Dezső Ernster
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival
Shot on 35mm film; directed by Paul Czinner using multi-cameras.[4][5]
VHS: VAI
Cat: 69063
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 000440 073 0199 9
1961 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Walter Berry
Elisabeth Grümmer
Donald Grobe
Pilar Lorengar
Erika Köth
Ivan Sardi
Josef Greindl
Ferenc Fricsay
Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus
(videotaped performance for television; in black & white, sung in German)
DVD: Premiere Opera Ltd.
Cat: 5245
1977 Theo Adam
Siegfried Vogel
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Peter Schreier
Kay Griffel
Renate Hoff
Peter Olesch
Motomu Itzuki
Otmar Suitner
Berlin State Opera orchestra and chorus
(videotaped performance for Japanese television; sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles)
1979 Ruggero Raimondi
José van Dam
Edda Moser
Kenneth Riegel
Kiri Te Kanawa
Teresa Berganza
Malcolm King
John Macurdy
Lorin Maazel
Paris Opera orchestra and chorus
1979 film directed by Joseph Losey
DVD: Second Sight
Cat: 2NDVD 3132
CD: Sony
Cat: 82876 87758-2
Blu-ray: Olive Films[6]
1987 Thomas Allen
Claudio Desderi
Edita Gruberová
Francisco Araiza
Ann Murray
Susanne Mentzer
Natale de Carolis
Sergei Koptchak
Riccardo Muti
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
videotaped performance; directed by Giorgio Strehler
DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: 3001
1987 Samuel Ramey
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Gösta Winbergh
Júlia Várady
Kathleen Battle
Alexander Malta
Paata Burchuladze
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Videotaped performance; directed by Michael Hampe
DVD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88697296049
1988 Thomas Allen
Stafford Dean
Makvala Kasrashvili
Stuart Burrows
Kiri Te Kanawa
Joan Rodgers
Gordon Sandison
Gwynne Howell
Colin Davis
Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus
Television broadcast on Channel 4 produced by Peter Wood[7]
VHS: Premiere Opera[7]
1990 Eugene Perry
Herbert Perry
Dominique Labelle
Carroll Freeman
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Ai Lan Zhu
Elmore James
James Patterson
Craig Smith
Vienna Symphony orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
video directed by Peter Sellars
cast and costumed in the manner of a modern blaxploitation movie, set in Spanish Harlem
DVD: Decca
Cat: 071 4119 9 DH
1990 Samuel Ramey
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Carol Vaness
Jerry Hadley
Karita Mattila
Dawn Upshaw
Philip Cokorinos
Kurt Moll
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
DVD: The Opera Lovers
Cat: DVDDONG 199001
2000 Bryn Terfel
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Renée Fleming
Paul Groves
Solveig Kringelborn
Hei-Kyung Hong
John Relyea
Sergei Koptchak
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
production directed by Franco Zeffirelli
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: B003MSYXMS
2001 Rodney Gilfry
László Polgár
Isabel Rey
Roberto Sacca
Cecilia Bartoli
Liliana Nikiteanu
Oliver Widmer
Matti Salminen
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Zürich Opera House orchestra and chorus
video directed by Brian Large
DVD: Arthaus Musik
Cat: 100 328
2007 Simon Keenlyside
Anton Scharinger
Eva Mei
Piotr Beczała
Malin Hartelius
Martina Janková
Reinhard Mayr
Alfred Muff
Franz Welser-Möst
Zürich Opera House orchestra and chorus
production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf [de]
DVD: EMI
Cat: 50999 500970 9 8
2008 Simon Keenlyside
Kyle Ketelsen
Marina Poplavskaya
Ramón Vargas
Joyce DiDonato
Miah Persson
Robert Gleadow
Eric Halfvarson
Charles Mackerras
Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus
stage director: Francesca Zambello
Blu-ray: Opus Arte
Cat: OABD7028D[8]
2010 Bo Skovhus
Kyle Ketelsen
Marlis Petersen
Colin Balzer
Kristine Opolais
Kerstin Avemo
David Bižić
Anatoli Kotscherga
Louis Langrée
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Recorded July 2010, Aix-en-Provence Festival
Stage director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Blu-ray: Bel Air Classiques
Cat: BAC480[9][10]
2010 Gerald Finley
Luca Pisaroni
Anna Samuil
William Burden
Kate Royal
Anna Virovlansky
Guido Loconsolo
Brindley Sherratt
Vladimir Jurowski
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
stage direction by Jonathan Kent
DVD: EMI
Cat: 072017-9
2011 Peter Mattei
Bryn Terfel
Anna Netrebko
Giuseppe Filianoti
Barbara Frittoli
Anna Prohaska
Stefan Kocan
Kwangchul Youn
Daniel Barenboim
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat:
2015 Carlos Álvarez
Alex Esposito
Irina Lungu
Saimir Pirgu
Maria José Siri
Natalia Roman
Christian Senn
Rafał Siwek
Stefano Montanari
Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus
DVD: Major
Cat:

References

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  1. ^ a b Recordings of Don Giovanni on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. ^ "Don Giovanni, Met matinee broadcast performance January 20, 1934". Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  3. ^ New Records. Don Giovani c. Georg Solti. Opera, October 1979, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 973–974.
  4. ^ Don Giovanni (1954) at IMDb  
  5. ^ Richard Fawkes (2000), Opera on Film London: Duckworth, pp. 149–50
  6. ^ Don Giovanni (Blu-Ray). Olive Films. 22 February 2013. OCLC 827950576.
  7. ^ a b 1988 Royal Opera House, OCLC 658079912.
  8. ^ "Mozart – Don Giovanni – Blu-ray disc". UK: Opus Arte. 2009. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  9. ^ Lawrence, Richard (2013). "Tcherniakov's Don Giovanni at Aix with Langrée in the pit". Gramophone (Awards). pp. 106–107. The singing is good, and the acting is so accomplished that you feel you are watching 'real life' rather than 'a performance'. The orchestra plays well. If Louis Langrée's conducting lacks tenderness, it certainly accords with this very unjocular interpretation of da Ponte's dramma giocoso.
  10. ^ Ashley, Tim (28 November 2013). "Mozart: Don Giovanni – DVD review". The Guardian.
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