Don Giovanni – review

Theatr Hafren, NewtownThere's plenty of sex in Don Giovanni: Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, saw to that. With rape and murder in the opening scene, it's already explicit enough, you might suppose. Yet in updating the action in Mid-Wales Opera's new staging, the director Martin Lloyd-Evans has not been able to resist pimping it up. Literally.In the red light district of an American city, Donna Anna appears to be a prostitute; her father, the Commendatore, and her fiance, Don Ottavio, cloc...

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