| Other author/creator | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798. Mémoires. |
| Other author/creator | Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, librettist. |
| Included Work | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas. Selections. |
| Included Work | Leutzendorff, Matthias, producer. |
| Other author/creator | C Major Entertainment GmbH. |
| Abstract |
Michael Sturminger and Martin Haselböck adapt Casanova's themes and create with their new chamber-opera play "The Giacomo-Variations," a dramatic and humorous approach to a phenomenon. We meet Casanova - alternately played by Hollywood star John Malkovich and a baritone - in various exciting encounters, and are witness to his very personal retrospection on his life in the face of his approaching death. Somewhere in the midst of these encounters, bursting with desire and passion for numerous women, Casanova has to confront his biggest fear: to die, before discovering what he has lived for. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 25, 2014). |
| General note | Based on Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova ; opera scenes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte ; stage and costume design Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser. |
| Performer |
John Malkovich, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Florian Boesch, Sophie Klussmann ; Orchester Wiener Academie ; Martin Haselbock, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded live Jan. 2011, Ronacher Theater Vienna. |
| Language | Spoken in English and sung in Italian. |
| In | Giacomo Variations |
| Genre/form | Concert films. |
