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Dr. Takt über Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts: „Don Giovanni“, Ouvertüre, Takt 23-26 - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Experience the 25th episode of our video series with Dr Takt here.

Dr Takt on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's: „Don Giovanni“, Overture, bars 23-26

Dr Takt knows the special parts of many a score - and explains their fascination to us

Mozart’s genius often lies in the details, in the rich and heavily nuanced configuration of the scores. One example is beats 23 to 26 of the GIOVANNI Overture, where Mozart introduces a slight variation of the music that plays at the opera’s close when the ghost of Commander Giovanni accepts responsibility for his actions: It begins with a forceful D minor chord, followed by urgent syncopations and a pounding, punctuating base rhythm. This section then opens up into a closing cadence, with wind instruments and bass tones in chromatically ascending chords. Flutes and first violins play against the sound in waves of ascending and descending scales. These scales change beats according to the base chord, giving this section a threatening and imposing tone and burning into our memory as an “impending danger”.

Dr Takt's notes on Mozart's "Don Giovanni
 
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DEC

Adventsverlosung: Das 7. Fensterchen

Today we are giving away an unforgettable family Christmas classic: Engelbert Humperdinck's HÄNSEL UND GRETEL on 26 December 2024 at 2:00 p.m. for four people. If you would like to take part in the draw for four tickets, please send an e-mail to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de today with the subject line ‘The 7th window’.

Although HÄNSEL UND GRETEL is actually set in spring – it's strawberry season –, this opera is a Christmas classic for young and old alike. And so Humperdinck's ‘children's Christmas pageant’ is once again scheduled this December in Andreas Homoki's imaginative production: are they naughty or just playful, the two children Hansel and Gretel? In any case, the broom they are supposed to bind breaks, the stocking that is already half-knitted dissolves into squiggly yarn. And then the milk pot falls to the floor. So the mother sends the two children into the forest to collect strawberries. Unexpectedly, they escape the confines and poverty of the broom-maker's house and find themselves in an enchanted forest that transforms everything instantly: their clothes are suddenly much more colourful, birds sing sweetly in the iridescent light, strawberries and flowers grow in abundance, lovable clowns rock them to gentle dreams... If only the witch weren't there.

For over 100 years, Humperdinck's HÄNSEL UND GRETEL has been one of the most popular operas for the whole family. Andreas Homoki tells the story in a child-friendly and straightforward way. Together with his set and costume designer Wolfgang Gussmann, he counteracts the opulence of the music with a lightness and poetic imagery that reaches its magical climax in the night scenes in the forest.



Closing date: 7 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 9 December 2024. The tickets will be sent to you as Ticketdirect. No right of appeal to the courts.