Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is a play with abysses - between seduction and guilt, freedom and punishment, comedy and tragedy.
Don Giovanni - a name that stands for daring conquests and exciting love adventures, but also for anarchy and unscrupulous behavior. He moves unstoppably until he kills a man in a quarrel. This murder puts an abrupt end to the seducer's seemingly carefree life.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is not a moral lesson, but a fascinating balancing act between comedy and tragedy, chaos and order, freedom and compulsion - between the grotesque comedy of the masked ball and the deadly seriousness of the abyss. The libretto, set in the arch-Catholic Seville of the High Baroque, poses a universal question: how much individuality can a society bear before it begins to totter?
The new Chemnitz production is directed by Dennis Krauß, who already made a passionate and poetic statement against social condemnation and exclusion last season with Peter Eötvös' opera "Sleepless".
Premiere January 30, 2026
Further performances: February 14 and 24, March 27, April 11 and 19, May 13, June 5, 2026
