Mozart: Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni’s special amalgam of dark drama and sparkling comedy is captured with startling immediacy by Carlo Maria Giulini. The Viennese baritone Eberhard Wächter faces a particularly formidable pair of noble ladies: Donna Anna in the form of Joan Sutherland (in one of her rare recordings for a label other than Decca) and the Donna Elvira of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Don Giovanni - Eberhard Wächter
Donna Anna - Joan Sutherland
Leporello - Giuseppe Taddei
Commendatore - Gottlob Frick
Donna Elvira - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Don Ottavio - Luigi Alva
Masetto - Piero Cappuccilli
Zerlina - Graziella Sciutti

Heinrich Schmidt harpsichord
Philharmonia Chorus - Roberto Benaglio chorus master
Philharmonia Orchestra · Carlo Maria Giulini
Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte after Giovanni Bertati

Recorded: 7–15.X & 23–24.XI.1959, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London