Theater named after Ermolova presented the play by American playwright Don Nigro "Don Giovanni"

MOSCOW. For the first time, Russian viewers saw an unusual version of the story of the great seducer, created by the imagination of an American playwright. The premiere of the play "Don Giovanni" was shown on February 20 at the Theater. Ermolova. The initiator of this production was the famous actor and producer Alexander Samoilenko.

Together with director Viktor Shamirov, they chose a play unknown to the Russian public for the production of Don Giovanni. For more than 40 years, the directors of the playwright Don Nigro have been staged by directors from different countries, however, this author is practically unfamiliar to Russians. A play for the theater. Ermolova, translated by Victor Weber, a Moscow translator.

Don Nigro created his tragedy (only a genre should include a play where heroes find themselves in situations that turn from tragedy to comedy) in 2008, using the libretto of the famous opera Amadeus Mozart, where the author called Don Juan “The Punished Libertine”.

As in the Mozart opera, the play “Don Giovanni” contains classic characters, only now they have become equal partners in the adventures that fell to their lot. In the premiere performance, in the role of Don Giovanni, the audience saw Dmitry Pevtsov, and in the image of Leporello - Alexander Samoilenko. In the same roles in the future it will be possible to see Gosha Kutsenko and Mikhail Policeitsimako.

Together with the director Viktor Shamirov, the artist Olga Nikitina worked on the performance. The scene she designed looks like a ruined ancient Roman temple. Seeing the artists appearing among the columns, the audience expects that pathos will now sound. However, the text spoken by the characters is fundamentally different from what the audience expected, and the jokes on the stage sound very specific. Only the music of Mozart recalls the classics here.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru