PARTICIPANTS OF THE ENSEMBLE ORQUESTA / MUSIC AT WOODHOUSE OPERA ACADEMY MEMBERS OF THE HASTINGS PHILHAMONIC CHOIR AND HASTINGS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA .
MARCIO DA SILVA - STAGE/MUSIC DIRECTOR MONIKA SAUNDERS -SET/COSTUMES

NEYLSON CREPALDE - ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

After the huge success in 2016 the Ensemble OrQuesta Opera Academy brings to Hastings another one of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Singers coming from all over the world will take part in two performances of the opera in St. Mary in the Castle.

With an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, Don Giovanni is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on 29 October 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed, like many of its time, as dramma giocoso, a term that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, Don Giovanni is currently tenth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. It has also proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers.