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 ...
“Don Giovanni” is the best known and most frequently stage version of the Don Juan legend. Mozart’s full title for his masterpiece is “Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni,” or “The Rake ...
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 ...
Today’s opera companies face a similar issue. The best known works are often hundreds of years old, written by White European men for the upper classes of the day and not always relatable for modern ...
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 ...
What happens when you mix an 18th century classical opera with 1980s Wall Street? “A night of debauchery,” says Ben Cohen, the director of Vegas City Opera’s Don Giovanni. “The whole opera is taking ...
San Diego Opera (SDO) opens its first grand opera of the season on Friday with a bold new production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni." SDO general director David Bennett is always looking for innovation.
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Ivo van Hove’s stark production of Mozart’s classic has returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a uniformly excellent cast. By Joshua ...