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How, in what way can television hold its own when filming an opera, especially an opera like Mozart’s Don Giovanni? How do you make the performance of such an opera a moment of television, a spectacle that is essentially televisual and not just a passive recording of a splendid show with its own scenic, spatial, emotional and, of course, musical rationale? Yoshi Oida directed the opera. His staging is stripped down, with minimal sets. If Oida sought a theatrical emotion, David Stern a musical emotion, our aim could be nothing less than to create a televisual emotion. This Don Giovanni is a total cinematic immersion in the opera company: the singers on stage sand in the wings and the musicians in the orchestra pit, conducted by David Stern.

France - 2009 - 2 h 40 mn - HD • 16/9

Director Paul Ouazan Staging Yoshi Oïda Sound Jean-Yves Pouyat Sets Thomas Schenk Costumes Elena Mannini Editing Bertrand Sart Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Orchestra leader David Stern Cast Marc Callahan, Frédéric Bourreau, Marc Labonnette

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