Aix-en-Provence Festival, “Don Giovanni” with an open heart
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Robert Icke's staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni, opening the 2025 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Here, Leporello (Krzysztof Baczik, standing), Giovanni (André Schuen, in white) and the Commendatore (Clive Bayley, on the ground). Aix-en-Provence Festival 2025 © Monika Rittershaus
Complicated, even confusing, Robert Icke's staging of Mozart's masterpiece is not saved by a lackluster musical direction. A very disappointing opening for the 2025 Aix Festival.
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I subscribeIt is said that, just before dying, one sees one's entire life again in a fraction of a second. This is what happens to Don Giovanni, unless it is to the Commendatore, unless it is to the two characters merging into one, in the new Mozart production opening the Aix festival. Victim of a heart attack, the hero walks around like a ghost, becoming the plaything of the plot – and of his valet Leporello in a reversal of powers – and no longer its driving and impulsive force. Robert Icke decided so, plunging the entire show into a dark and gray atmosphere, whose staged decor, like the conscious and the unconscious, has the appearance of a parking lot, unfortunately without a car to add a little movement…
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