Over the past 47 years, San Diego Opera has staged Mozart’s 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” five times. The last time was in 2015, when it was presented in a minimalist production dominated by oversize ...
The San Diego Opera performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on Sunday, February 4, was good, overall. It definitely wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. It was good. The singing was good to pretty good. None ...
Mozart’s 237-year-old opera “Don Giovanni” is filled end to end with glorious arias that showcase the talents of its singers. But its plot — inspired by the Don Juan stories about a serial seducer ...
Houston Grand Opera’s current production of “Don Giovanni,” onstage at the Wortham Center through May 5, seems to think so. Although the production was actually developed a few years before the #MeToo ...
There are so many ways to play the title character in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni knows this firsthand because he’s been in 120 performances spread over 13 different productions ...
Don Giovanni, Mozart’s dramma giocoso, is a notoriously difficult opera to get right. Many great directors have come unstuck when trying to make sense of its often incongruous blend of seriousness and ...
Visually, the production is stunning. The set (designer Es Devlin) is a full-sized house, onto which videos are projected (video designer Luke Halls). The house rotates, and the projections follow, a ...
“Don Giovanni” is undoubtedly one of the most loved, feared, and praised works in the operatic repertoire. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, it ...
Though innocent until proven guilty, Sean “Diddy” Combs currently reigns as America’s poster boy for drug orgies and forced seductions of young women and girls — an American Don Juan (Don Giovanni in ...
Opera Australia and State Opera South Australia will present Mozart's DON GIOVANNI at the Barossa Arts Centre, marking South ...
Don Giovanni can work in any number of times and places, provided that the social hierarchies that underpin the story are not sacrificed. Oliver Platt’s production for Holland Park not only succeeds ...