Simon Keenlyside, the British baritone playing the role of the playboy of Seville at the Met for the first time, has sung at all of the world's major opera houses and made his New York début two decades ago. Adam Plachetka portrays the laughably meek and incompetent servant Leporello, whose discontent with his master is mixed with envious admiration. He was born in Prague, the city where Don Giovanni was first premièred. This production of the work by Michael Grandage won a Tony, the most prestigious award in the American theatrical profession. In the role of Elvira, the sufferer of severe psychological blows who is condemned to constant disappointment, we'll be treated to the silvery-voiced and aristocratically elegant Swedish lyric soprano Malin Byström. The Franco-Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón will be making his Live in HD debut as Don Ottavio, whose perennially reluctant-to-tie-the-knot fiancée, Donna Anna, will be sung by the celebrated Georgian soprano Hibla Gerzmava. In the role of the Commendatore, who returns as a stone statue in the opera's simultaneously momentous and tragicomic finalé, will be the fantastic South Korean bass Kwangchul Youn, with Serena Malfi and Matthew Rose playing the beguiled Zerlina and the bamboozled Masetto, respectively. This brilliantly entertaining interpretation of the opera of all operas will unfold under the baton of the New York opera house's principal conductor.

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