Don Giovanni – review

Soho theatre, LondonMozart's dark comedy is regularly staged, and versions bringing its dramatic context up to date and closer to home are nothing new. What is exceptional about Robin Norton-Hale's Soho theatre staging for OperaUpClose is the level of imaginative skill with which the transfer is managed.Giovanni here becomes the womanising city trader Johnny, with his unwilling intern Alexander – Leporello in Mozart's original – careering along in the wake of his driven sexual excess. Cherr...

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