MLive

'Don Giovanni,' Mozart's dark comedy of Don Juan, returns in Opera Grand Rapids production

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – It starts with a rape and ends with a murder, but that’s just the opening scene of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” It really ends with the notorious libertine, Don Juan, going to hell.
The Baltimore Sun

‘Giovanni’ shows power of passion; Opera: The simplicity of Mozart’s Don Juan, coming to the Lyric, is as lovable today as when he was first embraced more than 300 years ago.

From the amorous adventures of the Greek god Zeus to the alleged exploits of the current president of the United States, the Seducer has always captured the imagination of the public. But if one had ...
Berkshire Eagle

An American wrote the libretto to Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, a librettist, first met in Vienna in 1783. They shied away from the staid Greco-Roman mythologies, used frequently in opera until then, choosing to ...
The Spokesman-Review

Spokane Symphony review: “Don Juan,” Mozart, “Romeo and Juliet”

1. Richard Strauss, Don Juan. Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Rudolf Kempe. Warner/EMI 2. W.A. Mozart, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D minor K. 466. Annie Fischer, piano. The ...