Don Giovanni

Holland Park, LondonStephen Barlow's new production of Don Giovanni relocates Mozart's great examination of sexual licence to late Victorian London and reworks it as a supernatural thriller after the fashion of Wilde's Dorian Gray or Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde. By placing the opera in a society both sexually obsessed and repressive allows Barlow to focus on the Don's transgressive nature and the hypocrisy surrounding him.Desire fractures class boundaries and Nicholas Garrett's Don glides betwee...

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