DON GIOVANNI

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Following the huge success of The Marriage of Figaro in 2024 and Così fan tutte in 2025, Opera Project return to Tobacco Factory Theatres this autumn to complete the Mozart / Da Ponte trilogy with Don Giovanni.

Within minutes of the opera opening, Don Giovanni is involved in a duel with the Commendatore, whose daughter Anna he has abducted. The Commendatore is killed and the tone is set for a series of brutal escapades, culminating in a graveyard where Giovanni invites the statue of the Commendatore to dinner. Unbelievably for the Don, the statue accepts and the opera reaches its climax in the famous supper scene during which Giovanni is dragged to hell.

This is the story of a man entirely driven by desire for sexual conquest, a desire that not only controls his own life but those around him. This tale of seduction, murder and divine retribution is nevertheless richly imbued with darkly comic episodes, provided by the fast and furious interplay between Giovanni and his servant Leporello, one of opera’s most memorable creations.

For more info and thoughts on the opera by Jonathan Lyness, please go to Tobacco Factory Theatres

Please also see ‘In Conversation with Jonathan Lyness’ here.

Sung in Amanda Holden’s English translation by a superb cast and accompanied by the brilliant ten-piece Opera Project Orchestra, directed from the harpsichord by Jonathan Lyness.

‘They make it work, they deliver with punchy, impactful theatre, and they cast with strength’

Opera Now, Jan/Feb 2007, The Turn of the Screw, Opera Project at Tobacco Factory Theatres

DON GIOVANNI PERFORMANCE DATES:

23, 25, 26, 29, 30 September; 2, 3 October 2026 (all performances begin at 7.30pm, ending 10.30pm with one twenty interval of twenty minutes)
Tobacco Factory Theatres, Raleigh Road, Bristol BS3 1TF
0117 9020344
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