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  • Sooo moving...

  • opening - very bad!

  • Love Harnoncourt stile beside!!

  • Mozart was a genius without doubt. The best in classicism. But, I wouldn´t put him on the top of all the time composers as many of his early works apart of being brilliant lack of something that romantic composers take on their works. Anyway Don Giovanni makes already some winks to romanticism. He should have shaked off italian opera influence.

  • the "resistance" to beautiful music, art and education are those who can't appreciate the same. nouveau illiterates misspell names and excuse such as "variants". i remember when one was appreciated and respected for glasses, grey at the temples and speaking one's language properly. i, too, have a varied taste in music.

  • 17 Nov 2011. I went to don giovanni yesterday... in Zurich

  • C'est trop calme T_T,insuportable comment les gens peuvent aimé cette chose?!!

  • Mozart the great

  • I make it a point to try and compliment each piece I hear. But unfortunately, this is just one piece where poor phrasing damages the whole performance. Especially in the overture, where everything rides on correct phrasing and bowing.

  • 16 dislikes ??!?!? who are you? stop pushing buttons you don't understand! idiots

  • Mozart was channeling Beethoven

  • @KnottPatriot Beethoven was 17 when Mozart did this tho

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  • @hombredelpartido: Now thats a comment to put on internet. And I fully agree, I wish everyone the same.

    Masterpiece and priceless btw...

  • Mozart would not be impressed with all of you idiots talking about his music instead of just sitting down and listening. To be honest, he'd probably grab a drink, walk off, and go else where to where the would appreciate it.

  • @ninjtrtle No way dude, he'd freaking love it. Seeing as, like, NO ONE really talked about his music when he lived. He really hated that.

  • mi espiritu estaba hambriento antes de reproducir, ya puedo morir en paz, este manjar satisfizo su interior.

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  • how can you listen here all day to this i'm just doing it to hw and how the heck do people think that this is being enlited i mean he is writing down ideas and emotions not anything spiritual and even if he is it's not gaining him knoledge of anything only how to make better music

  • @jakerby2468 Now, now, when doing your "hw" you need to give a little more thought to SPELLING! Perhaps you should think more about learning rather than squealing about the heartfelt thoughts of those moved by Mozart's oeuvre. Punctuation, too needs thought. "Enlited"? Enlightened, maybe. "Knoledge"? Knowledge possibly.

  • A mais bela de todas. 

  • Awww the man is so adorable he looks so happy!!

  • Real Mozart fans listen to his operas, the rest are posers! (and this is coming from a self-admitted former poser... it took me years to finally start listening into his operas)

  • @thesir27 "Real" Mozart fans listen to his everything

  • @sirshitsalot007 Well yeah exactly

  • Interesting fact: Mozart wrote a letter to the father the day before the presentation of Don Giovanni, saying that he had begun writing the opening. Its used after seeing the letter writing said he stopped for four minutes as if "he had plunged into a sea of​thoughts." Then woke up and Mozart wrote the opening of Don Giovanni, who claimed to see the score ever written. The next day, the musicians had to read the opening of Don Giovanni in the presentation of the work.

  • 15 people listen to bloody doof-doof techno ringtones all day long

  • @jiggaboo904

    WHAT!?

  • @misterCrescendo1, @jiggaboo904, guys every body has unique taste in music... my ipod has artists like lil wayne, diddy eminem, to daddy yankee, frank sinatra, dean martin, ray charles, micheal bubble, phantom of opera, mozart etc.... one day i could be goin to theaters, next day im at my local club... im just sayin everyone has there way.. stop hatin each other... u dont like somes taste dont hang with them or dont chat to them simple.... sort out the hate... its 2011.. fix up, look sharp..

  • @indrit9

    Hey,

    it could be my playlist

  • I'm not crazy about this recording. It's a little bright, especially the violins. But then again I'm watching it on youtube, so who am I to complain :P

  • im gonna go watch this opera next week! i wanted to get a sense of what it was all about

  • @jiggaboo904 Fuck you LOSER! If you don't like this music, just close your fucking mouth!

  • @jiggaboo904 Hey,the asshole!..You're just an idiot if you don't understand that's the real music!

  • I learned about this opera via a superb Batman comic called "Gothic" and written by the inimitable Grant Morrison. Just putting that out there. ^_^

  • If only Salieri knew how popular Mozart is today (:

  • @DearJenny71

    You have to be careful using Hollywood as a truth detector. Much of the movie Amadeus was fiction. Salieri and Mozart actually were friends. Sussmayr, a favorite pupil of Mozart, , was the one who completed The Magic Flute not Salieri as in the movie. Artistic license is what the movie is all about. Unfortunately we have a tendency to believe that movies about history are true. Big mistake. And to comment on some posts. Just because you like something doesn't make it good.

  • @kfcohea

    @kfcohea

    Not exactly...Sussmayer completed the Requiem. Salieri and Mozart respected each other but were professional rivals. Salieri tried to influence availability of theaters and performers to block Mozart's success in Italian opera. Salieri achieved positions and financial success Mozart failed to, though Mozart was the superior musician. Salieri was the better businessman. After Mozart's death, there was controversy involving Salieri for a century before Hollywood existed.

  • @conductor63 Mozart achieved immortality through his music.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I salute you Sir!

    :)

  • Going to see this tomorrow with my school!

  • The man looks like Dr. House!!!! haha =D

  • too fast!

  • The Don Giovanni Sonar Spaceship!

  • The saddest thing about opera in America is that typically people both on the production and audience sides of the fence forget that all social classes attended opera in its youth as a genre. Thankfully, the younger generations who are discovering an interest in opera are from all walks of life and may eventually dislodge this social dogma of opera being elitist. Thanks for the internet, libraries and being an opera chorister, without which I would never experience this beautiful music.

  • mozart nuestro q estas en los cielos

  • Harnoncourt is conducting freehand, but then again, so did Mozart (based on the 1984 movie Amadeus)

  • I'm going to see this opera at the end of the month. Thankfully, I live in a place where a lot of rich people donate to the arts, so poor folks like me can buy $10 tickets. :)

  • The opening two chords sound so familiar, from some other piece...

  • MAESTRO you say! Mozart, a Legend still alive!

  • Most beautiful Orchestra presentation! I adore the huge assembly of musicians and their marvelous work...Thank you for the wonderful concert...5*****)~ Zuzanna

  • Thank you very much for sharing ¨

    Beautiful upload ! Best quality of sound !

    Thank you very much !

    SMILE

    6******

  • Magnificent!!!

  • It's fantastic.GREATEST WOLFI!

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  • @VajzeFierakee Age and quantity aren't as important as the compositions themselves. Mozart wrote beautiful compositions. However, I feel that many of his compositions start to sound the same (not that I can't say that about some of the others, I just notice it more in his compositions).

    I also should point out that manco82 said that Mozart was great. It seems that you misread manco82's comment.

  • @VajzeFierakee What about Chopin or Beethoven? Bach, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Schubert, Gershwin, Rodrigo, and Villa Lobos are all other great composers. Should I also include Dowland and Puccini? I still have mentioned only a few.

    I do think Mozart is great, but to say he's the greatest there ever was is, in my personal opinion, ignorant of some other great composers.

  • 14 people are idiots

  • @DyingSun666 yup. 

  • Opera is so much like fine cheese. When you are young, it is the last thing you want to expose yourself to, but when you mature, you discover it's richness and flavor.

  • @jhnthnjns how true!

  • this is a beutifool, my grandpappy would approve!

  • This composition was for Mozart the straw that broke the camel's back. But boy was it worth it!

  • Like this post if you think this is Mozart's greatest composition

  • @unialphagel Mozart's greatest composition? He had a lot of great compositions, so I can't say if it is or isn't.

  • Like this post if you think this is Mozart's greatest composition.

  • I bet you non must feel the music quite as much as the conductor!

    Fascinating! 

  • disagree many where better.

  • Even though I prefer Bach, Mozart was undoubtedly the most talented composer this world has ever seen.

  • ahh Mozart! simply great, i love beethoven too crazy fart that he was, made heavenly music!

  • Opera is so gay. I love classical music but I hate Opera

  • @WhoLueYou i used to be the same. it took a long time to get used to the singing but one day i realized i was suddenly into it. its just the same as regular classical music, the voice is just another "instrument" (though an odd sounding one). try listening to some midis of opera music to get a feel for what the melody is supposed to sound like

  • @WhoLueYou its the oldest form of cinema soundtrack

  • @WhoLueYou

    you just haven't been listening to the right Opera. try some Wagner or Verdi

  • @WhoLueYou

    maybe you just haven't been listening to the right Opera. try some Wagner or Verdi 

  • beethoven or mozart? for me i am stuck , both strong !

  • que version mas mala por dios....

  • this is why i love internet....never had money to go to the opera. Here there are no social classes :))) no need to be rich anymore

  • @hombredelpartido

    No one needs to be "rich" in order to get into an opera, you dumbass. Maybe in specific theatres or something, but I can get into any classical concert, incl. opera, for averagely 10 bucks. Sitting at the front row often costs around 50, but that hardly qualifies as "rich" and is about the the price of a TV show season.

    Looks to me like you're trolling to spread idiotic stereotypes.

  • @twooffour maybe you should reconsider the real meaning of the term rich. It is a matter of fact that a very low percentage of the world population is the situation you describe in your comment. (pprbly 1%)

    Nevertheless, there is something more important than being rich. Is to be well-mannered and educated. And not to be a (probably north american) rich-ignorant person :))

  • @hombredelpartido

    Is this your own computer you type on?

  • @hombredelpartido Hell yeahh. Great comment, there are uses for the internet after all.

  • @hombredelpartido You can watch Met Opera in HD Theaters. Season just ended but check it out for 2011-12 season. Go to Met Opera website, HD theaters. It's live from Met, very inexpensive and maybe there's a theater near you...it's being broadcast in theaters all over the world.

  • You can see Met Opera in HD theaters all over the world. Met Opera live broadcast via satellite. Check Met Opera website for HD theater near you...inexpensive and available. This season just ended for HD broadcasts but check 2011-12 season.

  • @hombredelpartido true, but watching that on internet and seeing it in a real opera is not the same experience at all, me too btw I don't have enough to afford opera tickets...

  • @olivierjaquet yeah, you kind of right....thnx for your sympathy anyhow :)

  • @hombredelpartido "and so forth fallows the ultimate fall of civilized class and order"

  • @hombredelpartido your comment is so big ! so full of meaning that im gonna make a full size poster with that quote and hang it above my bed.

    could you please post your name. or at least a pseudonym.

  • @hombredelpartido yeah but unfortunately that means the people that play at the opera will lose out

  • By sadly, you are forced to live life in an imaginary world without human touch and warmth, without interaction, without the little faults and perfections that render living life alive worthwhile. My condolences, Gen Y'er. Arrivederci mio amico.

  • @hombredelpartido lets think now upon the question: why art was always expensive, and i mean class art? so that the masses cannot go and stay stupid and easy to be ruled! BUT NOT ME!

  • @solun82 in it's heyday, Operas were attended by all classes of people. Only in the 20th century it became seen as an elitist pastime. Mozart met a lot of resistance when trying to produce "The Marriage of Figaro," because the plot of that play was stirring up animosity in the lower classes in France. Now how could the happen if the poor were not in attendance?

  • Also, I don't know where you live but in most big cities in america performances of classical music/operas are very accessible and affordable. Some for free even, simply because people want to spread the art around.

  • @0x1 yeah, dont take me wrong but that's what usa always was doing, taking the art of Europe (and brains too), i really feel so bored to talk about this, its like a common secret. but the masterplan is working - east europe is slowly destroyed, i live in Bulgaria, we turn for 20 years from quite developed country to a banana one.

  • Mozart is the best

  • @FlorisK93 and beethoven

  • @meriuss i want to fuck you

  • i love it

  • mah, resto perplesso dalla scelta degli interpreti.....

  • Such simple music if you really break it down in the beginning, but so effective.

    I think that was Mozart's gift, simplicity. By combining so much simplicity made his music amazingly complex when combined.

  • imaginen si el hubiera vivido mas años... I Miss You Mozart

  • @manuelspcool logro bastante en su vida aunque corta pero hubiera sido muy interesante que por lo menos hubiera terminado el requiem un verdadero genio que lastima que murio tan joven ;(

  • Guys, Guys, listen he, Guys list, Guys listen here. What if Guys Guys what if, I try and Guys What if, I try and compo Guys Now bare with me. What if, I try an Guys Guys Guys Guys What if, I try and compose my own shit.
  • @CUjoBitME fuc*k you man

  • Es ist sehr Schön.

    I adore this piece of music.

  • Wonderful.

    Bravissimo !!! Grazie assai.

  • uh, well, good. This guy...what's his name? oh yes, Mozart. Mozart shows considerable promise as a composer. Is he american ?

  • mozarts don jiovanni opera was one of the first operas i ever heard to this day when i re hear it it makes me cry but its still such a lovely opera reason Im now 33 years old and i first heard it about 32 years ago

  • @marstracysway and how do you know you remember it from 32 years ago?

    It doesn't matter if you're not a genius. "It is all vanity, vanity and the chasing of the wind'

  • Awesome! TY.

  • Man I wish I could understand what they're saying. Still, the music is as brilliant as ever.

    Mozart truly was one of the few divinely inspired artists.

  • Bad interpretation, on my opinion. The first part (commendatore scene instrumental) should be slower, much slower and the second part faster.

  • disgusting, rape. lord save us from all the 'purists'. 

  • Soooo nice....

    labeed abdal

  • This is one of the greates overtures ever!!!!!

  • Genius! Just Genius!

    Bravo, Herr Mozart! In Earth an Arcebisp employed you. In Heaven, problably God!

    Bravo!

  • thks ,, I love so much,,,

    una delle più belle aperture

  • Como me encantaría poder controlar una Opera.....debe ser algo magnifico

  • Am besten Orchester! A legjobb zenekar!

  • Certified Intergalactic! The best Don Giovanni Overture and Scene 1! Woohoo! Yahoo! Yehey! Hurray!

  • @VajzeFierakee Dont Forget about  J.S. Bach

  • Diggin' it.

  • It just amazes me that something so beautiful could come from any one human beings brain

  • i personally like more Don Giovanni than Magic Flute

  • LOL @ the pacino-deniro comments!

  • If I could, I would favourite this video again.

  • voglio far' il gentiluomo e non voglio piu servir...ANCH'IO!! MA PURTROPPO NON POSSO ANCORA !!!;)

  • Is that Robert Deniro?

  • No, its Al Pacino.

  • @PP1969GR actually you're both wrong it's Alan Arkin!

  • LOL

  • absolutely fabulous and im just a kid its just wonderful such grace

  • magnificent!

  • THE STEPENWOLK!

  • Simply Heart Throbing. Mozart, when he wrote this uniquely fabulous piece, must have thought at his Dad, the man who made him what Mozart was.

  • the staggering amount of positive feedback in the comments section astounds me. either all of you are trolls or none of you are.

  • aha my friends! I'm only now starting to get classical music and i love it! please could some of you gallant heroes direct me to other fabulous pieces?

  • @jozaow456 What about "The Magic Flute"? Just listen to the Overture, or to the Queen of the Night Overture!! right here in Youtube. or just the Elvira Madigan movement of Motzart's 21 piano concerto. Beethoven's 5'th piano concerto "The Emperor" is one of my favorites, but then there is so much to chose from...

  • ok! ill look at all of them and ill tell you how I feel about them =)

  • YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE MAGIC fLUTE, BUT THIS ONE HERE IS SIMPLY FABULOUS AS WELL. MOZART IS MOZART, A WONDERFUL, THOUGHTFUL COMPOSER. WHAT? HE WROTE 2,200 PIECES OR SO, DIDN'T HE? AND STARTED A 5 YEARS OLD, RIGHT? IF WRONG, LET ME KNOW, PLEASE.

  • He started composing at the age of four and did 626 compositions!

    He will always be remembered as THE MAESTRO!

  • @KarlNerman SO MANY COMPOSITIONS?!?!?!wow...and he died in the 30's(as in years old)

  • @Neoomegasonic yep he died at the age of 35!

    But he will live forever! :)

  • yep!but wonder why i got thumbed down like that DD:

  • @KarlNerman the maestro procrastinator, if you ask me! what has he done lately?

  • @Helt91 lol, don't blaspheem.

  • The only TRUE maestro is Bob Cobb.

  • @timboleo Lol, no.

  • @KarlNerman Yes. Mozart was a genius of such astonishing proportions as to never be equaled. This fact is largely lost to many because of today's profligate use of the word "genius" and its consequent cheapening.

  • @KarlNerman vivaldi wrote just as many, why dosent this make HIM THE MAESTARO??

  • @BlondBlackGuy Because what Mozart wrote was even better. Of course Vivaldi will be remembered as a great composer and a maestro aswell. Besides I have no idea how Vivaldi had anything to do with my comment?

  • @KarlNerman Better is a mater of opinion, but what I was tryen to say was, what makes him a better composer than anyone els? beauty is in the ears of the beholder...

  • @BlondBlackGuy He was just magical and had an unearthly talent for writing music. I dont know of anyone else who could memorize music like him, and then write it down. I think his "Requiem", even though left unfinished, is the most beautiful music ever written. I dont like comparing art, but Mozart's music is just simply the most divine out there. Yes beauty can be defined in different ways by different people, but some transcend those limits of personal taste and just create pure masterpieces!

  • imagine his masterpieces if he actually lived for more years

  • @barbavassilis I know, its a mind-blowing thought.

  • aha

  • @KarlNerman And you forgot Ludwig Van Beethoven? They called him the Maestro too, but I agree with you :D

  • @KarlNerman Elaine dated The Maestro..

  • The Magic Flute is my favourite opera EVER. There aren't any complete versions on youtube, but the best Queen of the Night Arias are done by Diana Damrau at the Covent Garden production of 2004. :)

    Mozart's 20th Piano concerto is also great... I can't fit everything good in one comment box. But you'll find you'll enjoy stuff of a certain period better than other stuff I think.

  • The Magic Flute is my favourite too!!!! And Salminen is a great Zarastro!!!

  • He certainly looks rather formidable on stage, but I've also heard a rendition done by Moll which is great.

  • You are right, I´m listening his version of Sarastro right now, it´s amazing

  • It just makes you want to shout "BRAVO!" and the top of your lungs, this piece is a well-needed punch in the stomach.

  • What a great video.

  • I agree, a great video. Check out lonestaropera . com for more great opera videos including exclusive behind the scenes.

  • Any way to find this with subtitles?

  • BRILLIANT

  • is auch nix für musiklegastheniker.

  • ceva magnific

  • Ésta es la única obra de Mozart en la que alguien le gana al enorme Harnoncourt. El Don Giovanni definitivo e inmutable es el de Krips. Se siente.

  • Certified Intergalactic! The best Don Giovanni ever!

  • He has raped and seduced women. Leporello has a book in which he records the women Don Giovanni has slept with.

  • that's kinda creepy and stalkerish if you dnt ask me. "black mail" i think not

  • lol the conductor.s expression is funny

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