This is a beautiful duet you should know: "Là ci darem la mano" from the opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Here it is performed by soprano Rocío Pérez and baritone Giorgos Kanaris at the opera gala for the German AIDS Foundation at the Opera House in Bonn in 2022. Accompanying them was the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, conducted by Jacques Lacombe.

Mozart's opera “Don Giovanni” - a screwball comedy about seduction and revenge with fatal consequences - was premiered on October 19, 1787, at the Count Nostitz National Theatre in Prague, conducted by Mozart himself. The libretto for the opera, whose full title was “Il dissoluto punito o sia il Don Giovanni” (Italian for “The Dissolute Punished, or Don Juan”), was written by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), who also contributed the texts of Mozart's “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Così fan tutte.”

In the first act, Don Giovanni meets Zerlina, the bride of the peasant Masetto, whom Don Giovanni is courting passionately. The highlight of the scene is their joint duet “Là ci darem la mano” (Italian for “There we will give each other our hands”).

The Spanish soprano Rocío Pérez began her studies in music, clarinet, and drama in her home city of Madrid, where at the age of fourteen she appeared as Sophie in Britten's "The Little Sweep" at the Teatro Real. Since then, she has appeared at renowned opera houses such as the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg in the role of Tebaldo (“Don Carlo”), the Opéra national de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris in the role of Cleone (“Ermione”), both the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Semperoper Dresden in the role of the Queen of the Night (“Die Zauberflöte”), the Teatro la Fenice in the role of Berenice (“L'occasione fa il ladro”), and the Metz Opera in the role of Norina (“Don Pasquale”). In July 2016, Rocío Pérez was awarded both the 3rd Prize and the Young Artist Prize at the first International Singing Competition "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg."

The Greek baritone Giorgos Kanaris studied singing in Munich and attended courses with Helmut Rilling and Thomas Quasthoff in Stuttgart as well as the master class of Daphne Evangelatos at the Munich Academy of Music. He performed in Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana” at the Munich Philharmonic and at the Cairo Opera House. Other guest appearances have taken him to Athens, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, and the Ruhrtriennale. At the 2005 Grand Prix Maria Callas, Giorgos Kanaris received the Special Award in the Oratorio/Song category. He also won the 2009 Schloss Laubach Competition. In 2010, he was awarded the Prize of the Opernfreunde Bonn. In 2011, he was a scholarship recipient of the Richard Wagner Association. Giorgos Kanaris has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Bonn since the 2009/2010 season.

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