Opera: "Don Giovanni (Mozart - Carmelo Bene 1971)

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the "Teatro di Praga" (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed like many of its time as dramma giocoso, a term that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an "opera buffa". Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements.

As a staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it appears as number seven on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. It has also proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers.

A screen adaptation of the opera was made under the title Don Giovanni in 1979, and was directed by Joseph Losey. (Source: Wikipedia)

Lost Vivaldi Composition Found

* Video: The first movement of Antonio Vivaldi's "Winter" (from The Four Seasons)


In accordance with Bloomberg.Com, flute concerto by baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi, missing since the middle of the 18th century, has been discovered in a Scottish aristocrat’s papers by a researcher, the Daily Telegraph reported.


The manuscript for Il Gran Mogol, one of a quartet of concertos whose whereabouts were unknown, was discovered in the papers of the Marquesses of Lothian, and Lord Robert Kerr, a son of the third marquis, is known to have studied the flute at the University of Edinburgh, the newspaper said.


He was killed at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, fighting for the British government forces against the Jacobite rebels fighting to restore the House of Stuart to the throne.


The work is to be given its first public performance since the 18th century in Perth, Scotland on Jan. 26, the Telegraph added.

Denis K. avec l'Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc

Denis Kozhukhin (born in Nizhny Novgorod, 1986) is a Russian pianist who was awarded the 2006 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition's 3rd prize.



Denis Kozhukhin won lately the grand prize of CIMM (The morrocan international music competition).

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Four violinists in four different corners of the globe perform one of the world's most beloved pieces:


Vivaldi's "the Four Seasons" 1725


This musical journey travels from spring in Tokyo and summer in Australia to winter in Finland and autumn in NY, combining stunning visiuals and cultural experiences with performances


by an international array of musicians.

From Mao to Mozart

Director: Murray Lerner
Release Date: 10 December 1981 (Australia)
Genre: Documentary - Music
Length: 1:23:09


From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China is a 1980 documentary film about Western culture breaking into China produced and directed by Murray Lerner. It portrays the famous violinist and music teacher Isaac Stern as the first American musician to collaborate with the China Central Symphony Society (Now China National Symphony Orchestra). The film documented Mr. Stern's rehearsals and performances of Mozart and Brahms violin concertos with the famous Chinese conductor Li Delun, who also acted as his guide and translator on his trip.


The film also included footage of Mr. Stern's visit to the Central Conservatory of Music where he lectured to the Chinese music students on violin playing and the art of musical expression. Among many others talented players, young cellist Jian Wang (at the time only ten years old) is featured briefly, Jian Wang has gone on to international stardom. The film won the 1980 Academy Award for documentary feature. It was also screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.