Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review

Garsington Opera, High Wycombe; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Dorchester Abbey, OxfordshireMorality, at the best of times an elusive commodity, is all but absent in Don Giovanni. The usual assumption is that Mozart's predatory lothario is the chief villain. But is anyone else really so wholesome? However prim the women, none is strictly virginal. They rebuke the Don for his fickleness when, Daniel Slater's racy new production for Garsington Opera suggests, they themselves are no better than ...

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