Don Giovanni – review

GlyndebourneGlyndebourne on Tour has a tendency to get right what the main festival sometimes gets wrong. Such, certainly, would seem to be the case with Jonathan Kent's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. No one cared for it much this summer, when Kent was accused of obscurantism and dullness, but his staging has been reworked and, I gather, streamlined by Ashley Dean, and is now a taut, sombre piece of music theatre that blends the disturbing eroticism of surrealism with the murky tensions of...

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