“Magnificent. ★★★★ impressive and perfectly cast … dramatically and musically affecting …a rich experience with real-world resonance.”
— Financial Times
“A blistering Don Giovanni … Ivo van Hove’s detailed, intentional directing made the characters and their motivations and interactions leap to the fore … the singers exuded vocal authority … at the center was Peter Mattei, a handsome, poisonous Don Giovanni, vocally resplendent … Natalie Stutzmann led a propulsive, dynamically shaded performance … powerful.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Van Hove’s work is smooth, flexible and agile … a breath of fresh air, featuring an excellent cast and conducted with unexaggerated vitality by Stutzmann … making a splashy debut … Peter Mattei’s tone is buttery yet airy, as irresistible as it was when he first sang this role at the Met 20 years ago.”
—The New York Times
“A splendid cast led by Stutzmann in an impressive Met debut makes Don Giovanni a must-see … Mozart’s music suits Mattei’s buttery baritone to perfection, and his irresistibly seductive ‘Là ci darem’ and ravishingly hypnotic serenade could hardly have been better … a resounding musical success.”
—Observer
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio.
