wrote Roland Manuel about this opera. Cynical, libertine, blasphemer, liar, at times sincere, Don Giovanni abuses the privileges that come with power. Mozart’s music and Ponte’s booklet consolidate the myth and give opera its first timeless hero.
Complete production stored at Opéra de Lausanne.
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
First performed in Gräflich Nostitzches National-Theater, Prague, October 29th, 1787
New Production by the Opéra de Lausanne
Director and costume designer Éric Vigié
Set designer Emmanuelle Favre
Lighting designer Henri Merzeau
Video Lorenzo Bruno and Igor Renzetti
Karolina Luisoni studied fashion design at the University of Art and Design in Krakow. She continued her training in costume and textile design at the University of Huddersfield, England. Her graduation project in 2013 won her a special award from actor Sir Patrick Steward, as well as a prize from the Northern Society of Costumes and Textiles. In 2015, she won the international competition organized by Luc Besson, for the costumes in his film Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes. In 2019, her “Mephistopheles” costume was exhibited at the Moscow State Historical Museum as part of the “Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: Next Generation” exhibition.
Since 2015, she has collaborated with several theater companies in Switzerland and abroad, and initiated her collaboration with the Opéra de Lausanne, where she participated in the workshop in the making of several Opéra de Lausanne creations. In 2017, she helped create the costumes for the production of Don Giovanni directed by Éric Vigié, followed by Eugène Onéguine in 2021 at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie. Her first production at Opéra de Lausanne was Cendrillon in 2018, followed by L’auberge du Cheval Blanc directed by Gilles Rico in 2021. Karolina Luisoni also works with theaters and theater companies in French-speaking Switzerland, most recently for Les Voyages Extraordinaires, TKM and Petit Théâtre Lausanne, where she will make her latest creation in December 2022 for the show Little Nemo.
