Ivo van Hove’s stark production of Mozart’s classic has returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a uniformly excellent cast.
Category: Don Giovanni (Opera)
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Aix Festival: How to Experience It From Afar
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Stuart Burrows, Welsh Lyric Tenor Who Straddled the Atlantic, Dies at 92
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Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality
An excellent cast brings heat to Ivo van Hove’s austere, agile staging of Mozart’s classic, starring Peter Mattei and conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann.