Don Giovanni – review

Coliseum, LondonFirst seen in 2010, ENO's current production of Mozart's Don Giovanni marked Rufus Norris's directorial debut in opera. Indifferently received when it was new, it remains an oddly chilly experience, hampered by moments of theatrical intransigence and the curious taking of liberties with the score. Norris updates the opera to the present and locates it in a modern urban hell-hole, where hooded, demonic figures rub shoulders with the protagonists, who, all too frequently, act in de...

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