Don Giovanni

by Mario Martone

Theatre workshop, by open competition, on the “Don Juan” myth, held by director Mario Martone at Luchino Visconti’s Villa La Colombaia, Forio d’Ischia, 9-29 Sept. 2002, tackling texts by Molière, Tirso de Molina, Kierkegaard, among others, and Wedekind’s Lulu as a feminine counterpart

Performances on the occasion of the award of the “Gattopardo d’Oro” Prize to Arthur Penn, 28-29 Sept. 2002

roles: young Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira, Lulu

Individual work with Arthur Penn on scenes drawn from the show

Some of the actors selected for the workshop were then cast for Mario Martone’s direction of “Don Giovanni” by Mozart at the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples) in the same year (cf. Don Giovanni opera)