Costume Design of Don Juan's many characters...
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Don Juan is a fantastically showy and colorful work of musical storytelling for large orchestra. Have fun diving in to this piece of music, popular with audiences since 1888!
A nerd festival! One hour video of rehearsal and performance with Karl Bohm and Vienna Phil.
A live recording with Andres Orozco-Estrada leading Frankfurt Radio Symphony
An entertaining clip of "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore. From Warner Bros: Before movies talked, they clacked with swords, gonged with wedding bells and pulsed with perfectly matched orchestral accompaniment. The process that made it happen was Vitaphone, a sound-on-disk system that made its feature-film debut in this lavish 1926 classic.
HIGHLIGHTS
Don Juan is a tone poem – a story told in music – for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. He was just 24 years old.
It was an international success at the time of its premiere performance in 1889 and continues to be popular now.
The musical inspiration is based on a play after the Don Juan legend which originated in Renaissance-era Spain. Johann Strauss reprinted three excerpts from the play directly into his score.
In the story, Don Juan is a flirtatious cad who searches in vain for the perfect woman. Ultimately he finds that his pursuit is hampered by his inauthentic approach and ultimately falls into despair, willing his own death.
Musically, it is often singled out as a symbol of turn of the century Modernism, particularly for the flourishing mood of its opening material.
Although already fairly well connected professionally, Don Juan's immediate impact established his reputation as an important new composer of Modernist music.
Don Juan lasts just under 20 minutes and call for a big colorful orchestra.
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