Don Giovanni – review

Glyndebourne, LewesLike all productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Jonathan Kent's – new at Glyndebourne last year, and here revived by Lloyd Wood – has to negotiate a coherent path through a piece the composer labelled a comic opera but which begins with an attempted rape, moves to a fatal duel, and ends with the leading character being consigned to hell for his unrepentant wickedness.It is no easy task, and, as with many contemporary stagings, Kent's veers closer to a serious opera with com...

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