When Ivo van Hove first discussed his “very dark” vision of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with his cast at the Metropolitan Opera, the leading man had doubts. “He said, ‘But is there no hope?’” the Belgian ...

Over the past 47 years, San Diego Opera has staged Mozart’s 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” five times. The last time was in 2015, when it was presented in a minimalist production dominated by oversize ...

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 ...

Madison Opera will conclude its 2024/25 mainstage season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni, the company's first production of this classic work in twelve years. Performances are on May 2 at ...

Opera Colorado opened it's 2023-24 season with the popular, classic Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Italian singer Bruno Taddia leads the cast and is setting a fine example for the younger singers in the ...

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 battle of the sexes is the most ancient of all story plots. It’s the basis of most operas, most sit-coms, and most Hollywood gossip. And certainly the Don Juan myth is an essential example of that ...

There's much to talk about when an opera company chooses to stage Mozart's "Don Giovanni." It has a problematic plot about a man obsessed with his sexual "conquests," and that's but the tip of the ...

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 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 ...

Bold intentions do not always make for a good show, and though Adam B. Levowitz’s original rock adaptation of ”Mozart’s Don Giovanni — a rock opera” has ambition, there’s much work to be done for this ...