Above : Peter Mattei stars as the title character in The Met: Live in HD production of “Don Giovanni.” (Photo/Fathom Events) Amoral behavior can lead to a bed end. That, in short, is the message of ...
Tempe native Richard Ollarsaba has sung the titular role of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Opera Hong Kong, Lyric Opera Chicago and on a handful of other stages. This weekend, he will bring it to Tucson ...
Baritone vocalist Brian James Myer, who plays the titular role of this opera production, agrees. He is more than familiar with the source material, having thrice played Masetto (Zerlina’s jealous ...
For most people in the audience, the first surprise – apart from discovering that the opening scene is Mozart/Da Ponte’s in embryo (Marcus Swielicki as Don Giovanni, Alexandra Dunaeva as Donna Anna ...
David Weigel was a young artist at the Brevard Music Center when he first got the chance to sing the title role in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” the renowned seducer of women who pays a steep price for the ...
You see a movie you haven’t seen in years, and there’s that one scene that brings on the “Oh, I remember now!” epiphany. We had that at Linda Rondstadt Music Hall on Saturday, April 27, when Arizona ...
A buzz of excitement filled the air before the start of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Dominion Energy Center on Friday. The rousing ovations at the end signified this production well exceeded ...
In Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the ...
In modern day terms, he is a sexual predator who racks up conquests and kills a man by duel without remorse. And, just like in BOF’s earlier production of “Rigoletto," says Jonathon Loy, stage ...
A dark, enigmatic staging of Mozart’s opera brings together the director Romeo Castellucci and the conductor Teodor Currentzis. By Ben Miller SALZBURG, Austria — “Chi son io, tu non saprai,” the stage ...
Near the end of New York City Opera’s new Don Giovanni, the murdered Commendatore staggers, zombielike, from his coffin—which is pretty much what the company is doing, too. Back from the dead but not ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook New York-bound productions of “Don Giovanni” (by Ivo van Hove) and “Rigoletto” (by Bartlett Sher) are premiering in Paris and Berlin ...