Don Giovanni Portraits: The voices behind the legend
Before experiencing Mozart's Don Giovanni on the grand stage at Stephens Hall Theater on October 9th and 11th, step inside the story through the characters whose lives it changes forever.
Don Giovanni Portraits is an intimate evening built around the opera's principal characters—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Leporello, Zerlina, Don Ottavio, Masetto, and the libertine himself, Don Giovanni. Through the opera's most revealing scenes and arias, each character emerges with striking humanity, illuminating the passions, desires, humor, heartbreak, and moral choices that have made Don Giovanni one of the greatest operas ever written.
Performed in Opera Baltimore's signature up-close format at our home venue at the Engineers Club, this special event invites audiences to experience Mozart's extraordinary music the way we believe opera is most powerful: through the thrilling immediacy of the unamplified human voice. Projected English translations and our intimate performance space make every emotional turn accessible, whether you're discovering Don Giovanni for the first time or returning to a beloved masterpiece.
Featuring a newly created chamber orchestration by Husan Chun-Novak, Don Giovanni Portraits offers a rare opportunity to hear Mozart's masterpiece with exceptional clarity and intimacy, revealing details, relationships, and musical brilliance that can be experienced in a deeply personal way.
Join us for this unique introduction to one of opera's greatest masterpieces, then continue the journey with Opera Baltimore's fully staged production of Don Giovanni the following month.
Come close. Listen deeply. Meet the characters behind this legendary opera.