Don Giovanni – review

Coliseum, LondonRufus Norris makes his operatic debut with Mozart's comedy – a brave choice given the piece's reputation as a director's graveyard. Despite its unassailable position in the repertoire, Don Giovanni possesses inherent contradictions. Nominally a comic opera, it begins with sexual violence and ends in divine retribution, while some of its main characters never depart from their overtly serious mode even in scenes motivated by farce. Whether Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Pont...

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