Don Giovanni’s special amalgam of dark drama and sparkling comedy is captured with startling immediacy by Carlo Maria Giulini. The Viennese baritone Eberhard Wächter faces a particularly formidable pair of noble ladies: Donna Anna in the form of Joan Sutherland (in one of her rare recordings for a label other than Decca) and the Donna Elvira of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

‘This set … put into the hands of those who have not yet unlocked the paradise of Mozartean opera, is worth …what? A year at a foreign university? I don’t believe I exaggerate.’ Gramophone

„Wer nicht auf Böhm schwört, dem kann dies als beste Giovanni-Aufnahme gelten.‟ Hermes Opernlexikon

« La plus humaine, la plus émouvante, la plus complexe, la plus achevée des versions de Don Giovanni. » Diapason

Artists

Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Gottlob Frick (Il Commendatore), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Heinrich Schmidt (harpsichord), Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini