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 ...

The Friday night opening of Houston Grand Opera’s "Don Giovanni," which runs through May 3, brought back the joint production of the HGO with Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Gran Teatre del Liceu and ...

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 ...

The big joke in Mozart’s 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” — one which he and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, must have had a good laugh over — is that the title character, aka Don Juan, the great lover, ...

The production’s wit and complexity is indicated straight away by Julia Hansen’s multi-tiered set, which looks like something out of a Wes Anderson movie. Where we normally encounter Leporello waiting ...

It’s clear that the director has been doing some thinking since the production’s first outing, but what’s also clear is that he’s lost some of the courage of his earlier convictions. The action is ...

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 ...

As the civil rape case against former president Donald Trump heads to its conclusion, the Minnesota Opera opens its no holds barred production of “Don Giovanni,” about a rich nobleman who rapes, lies ...

You could call it the "Fargo" of its day, opera as dark comedy. At the turbulent heart of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is the legendary figure of Don Juan, the promiscuous nobleman who gets in and out of ...

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