Don Giovanni

Due to numerous customer requests, Bärenreiter will be successively offering vocal scores to major Mozart operas in hardback editions again. This means you now have the choice: perhaps you prefer a lower-priced and slightly lighter soft-cover edition with excellent lay-flat characteristics or you feel that sturdier hardcover editions of important repertoire works are more likely to survive the rigours of a musician’s life.

Our vocal score to “Don Giovanni” K. 527 (BA 4550-93) is the first edition we have now published in a hardback version.

The vocal score of this ingenious opera by Mozart contains the original Prague version of 1787, which, due to its musical and dramaturgical coherence, should unquestionably be preferred to any hybrid versions. The changes made for the Vienna performances of 1788 are included in the appendix. Based on the research findings published in 2003 in the Critical Commentary to the respective music volume of the “New Mozart Edition” (Volume II/5/17), the highest musicological standards have been adhered to in this vocal score edition.

• Original Italian text with German translation
• Reader-friendly engraving
• Foreword (Ger/ Eng) with information on the work and performance practice notes