Theater An Der Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

�He was out to to create something �unheard-of��, observed conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt beforehand. And true to form: What the conductor had offer as he commenced his Mozart/Da Ponte cycle in the Theater an der Wien was something we �had never before heard like this� (Kurier). Nikolaus Harnoncourt, �master� of period performance practice, realized a project that had long been one of his dearest wishes: for the first time, he and his �original-sound orchestra� Concentus Musicus and his personal choice of singers were presenting the complete Mozart/Da Ponte cycle and harvesting the fruits of his Mozart research � an �enthusiastically acclaimed cycle!� (news.at). During an intensive phase of rehearsal and preparation, he was in search of a Mozart hermeneutic resting on historical sources and yet anchored in our own time, in order to stage the whole Da Ponte �trilogy� � Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cos� fan tutte � in a matter of a mere six weeks. �The culmination of Harnoncourt�s involvement with [Mozart�s Da Ponte operas] � �A Mozart drawn from historical sources and yet anchored in our own time.� (Die Presse) PART II: Don Giovanni+ Documentary: Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Between Obsession and Perfection (Don Giovanni)