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May 7, 2023 · Don Giovanni Through June 2 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org . Zachary Woolfe became The Times’s classical music critic in 2022, after serving as classical music editor since 2015.
- Tremendous Control
- Two Giants
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In the pit, Nathalie Stutzmann put on a fine display in the first of two Mozart operas that she will essentially author this month. The overture of this opera is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written with its proclamatory D minor chords among the most famous in classical music literature. But it’s become rather cliché to hear contemporar...
Peter Mattei is one of the best Don Giovanni interpreters in the world right now. It might be him sitting at the pinnacle all on his own. He’s electrifying in every single scene, always surprising you with the different shades and colors he can find both in the physical portrayal and also the musical one. Just look at the opening. He pranced in wit...
As Donna Anna, Federica Lombardi continues to assert her presence as a major Met star. Ironically, the first time I saw Lombardi at the Met was in this opera, but as Elvira, a role that, in my view, she never seemed comfortable in. But Donna Anna is something different completely and from the start of the night and all the way through the end, she ...
Whether this was always the intention behind the casting, it was fascinating that while Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni, and Leporello – the supposed “upper-class” were all white performers, the other three roles, Donna Elvira, Masetto, and Zerlina, who are not of the same social status, were all interpreted by performers of color, adding rat...
A review of the new production of Mozart's opera by Ivo Van Hove, set in modern times with a minimalist aesthetic and a stark contrast to the previous version by Michael Grandage. The reviewer praises the casting, the tone, the pacing and the innovation of the staging, which allows the characters to be more believable and the drama to be more engaging.
May 6, 2023 · Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove ( A View from the Bridge) made his Met Opera debut May 5 with a new production of Don Giovanni —and the reviews are in! The opera by Mozart and Lorenzo Da ...
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May 21, 2023 · Don Giovanni review – obsession, distress and danger in uneven new production. Mariame Clément’s thoughtful staging brings depth and insights but feels, at times, at odds with the score’s ...
Apr 29, 2023 · Don Giovanni seduces Masetto’s fiancée, Zerlina, with the promise of a fabulous future of riches and a house, and all these things. Then there’s the sexual, emotional dominance of Donna ...
May 10, 2023 · On the surface, this Giovanni goes about his scheming like a man prepping for a weekly sales meeting. For the Don, even sexual self-indulgence has grown stale, and cruelty has lost its magic. But ...
May 8, 2023 · Watching the first night of the Metropolitan Opera’s superb new production of Don Giovanni last Friday in New York, I was struck anew by the fact that some operas can somehow brush their 1787 ...
