Official Preview | Don Giovanni | Great Performances on PBS

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann also makes her Met debut, conducting the cast led by baritone Peter Mattei in the title role alongside bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Leporello.

Performed in Italian with subtitles in English.

PREMIERES BEGINNING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 on PBS

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I Can't Wait to see this new opera of "Don Giovanni" on Great Performances at the Met!! Which reminds me when the opera "Don Giovanni" was first ever telecasted on "Live From The Metropolitan Opera" starring Joan Sutherland and James Morris as part of PBS' Festival '78 Membership Pledge Drive on most PBS stations including my local PBS station: KPBS in San Diego, California, Circa Thursday March 16th, 1978 and then repeated during the Festival '78 30-Hour National Marathon (Sunday March 19th, 1978), Join The Celebration on Public TV: Festival '78!!