Mozart: Don Giovanni - Baden Baden (2013) [Blu-ray]

Philipp Himmelmann's staging of Don Giovanni boasts a star cast, Erwin Schrott performs in his signature role alongside Anaa Netrebko. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung states "Netrebko's voice has continued to grow in depth; its charisma and verve are still unparalleled. She gives a superlative performance of Donna Anna's great arias and pervades this character with truth, poetry and drama: an Anna who - as if she were a sister of Isolde - loves to the point of death. Thomas Hengelbrock, who is tasked with blending this dream voice with his Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, does so with an astounding romanticised reading of Mozart, almost in the spirit of the 19th century, (...) as if he has to make time stand still: linger, right now!"

A live recording from the Festspielhaus Baden Baden on May 23rd 2013.

In recent seasons Erwin Schrott has sung Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Teatro alla Scala, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Washington Opera and the Los Angeles Opera, as well as in Seville and Turin and with the Metropolitan Opera on tour to Japan. He has performed the role of Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, Covent Garden and in Valencia. Other roles in his repertoire have included Pagano in Verdi’s I Lombardi, the title role in Verdi’s Attila, Banquo in Macbeth, Escamillo in Carmen, Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust and the title role in Boito’s Mefistofele.