Simon Steen-Andersen’s opera is a captivating journey into the underworld of opera history. The performance is based on the iconic scene from Mozart's Don Giovanni, where the main character is sent down to hell.
In Don Giovanni’s Inferno we follow Don Giovanni on a journey through the underworld of opera among doomed and demonic characters from 400 years of opera history, and Simon Steen-Andersen unfolds an infernal staging that samples existing operas with site-specific and cinematic elements.
Every word and every note is found in existing opera scores, the characters move in and out of videos and live performance and into the darkest corners of the opera house.
Don Giovanni’s Inferno was premiered at Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg in September 2023, and it will now receive its Danish premiere at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen on 20 April 2024.Find more information about the upcoming performances here.
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