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 ...
Almost every opera lover agrees, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” is among the finest. Opera librettist E.T.A. Hoffmann called it “the opera of all operas”. Michigan State University Opera Theater will be ...
Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI was one of my first operas and remains among my favorites, despite its misogyny and the difficulty in putting together the kind of cast that can do justice to the string of ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s doubtful that any single production of “Don Giovanni” could capture the full range of musical splendors, interwoven tragic and comic components, and moral complexity of Mozart’s great 1787 opera.
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 ...
In his quest to seduce every woman in his path, the title character of “Don Giovanni” is one of opera’s most energetic figures — restless, relentless, and always on the move. Like the don, the San ...