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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The current production of “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera, running through March 6th, is the opera of the moment, a profoundly political and moral vision that’s as much of our time as of ...
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 ...
These days, the sexual politics in Mozart’s Don Giovanni are nearly impossible to navigate. The zeitgeist can’t tolerate the glamorization of a serial seducer, so a likable Don is right out. Yet ...