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
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 earned her a special award from actor Sir Patrick Steward, as well as an award from the Northern Society of Costumes and Textiles. She is the winner of the international competition organized in 2015 by Luc Besson, for the costumes of his film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In 2019, her costume “Mephistopheles” was exhibited at the Moscow State Historical Museum as part of the exhibition “Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: Next Generation”.
Since 2015, she has collaborated with several theater companies in Switzerland and abroad and initiated her collaboration with the Opéra de Lausanne. Hired in the costume workshops of the institution, she holds the role of assistant to the costume making. In 2017, she assisted in the creation of the costumes for the production of Don Giovanni. She realized her first creation at the Opéra de Lausanne during the production of Cinderella in 2018.
