Don Giovanni

For its first production in the summer of 2014 at the open-air Herod Atticus Theatre, the GNO has selected one of the greatest masterpieces of Western culture, Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Through his music, Mozart evokes all of the phases experienced by a man who challenges God and takes his fate into his own hands. Nothing is as it seems in this emblematic piece, which heralded the advent of musical Romanticism in the most poignant way. The production is directed by Yannis Houvardas, an acclaimed Greek director and until recently director of the Greek National Theatre. Houvardas has had extensive experience in directing operas at leading houses in Europe, such as at the operas of Gothenburg and Copenhagen. In Greece, this is the first time he is directing an opera and his first collaboration with the GNO. For an opera like Don Giovanni which was so innovative for its time, Yiannis Houvardas’s incisive approach is greatly anticipated at the Roman-era amphitheatre.