Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Mozart: Don GiovanniCanadian Opera Company Brett Polegato, baritone William Lacey, conductor Brett Polegato as Don Giovanni and Virginia Hatfield as Zerlina in the Canadian Opera Company's production of 'Don Giovanni.' (Michael Cooper)At the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto on Sunday ______________The Canadian Opera Company opened its fall season uncharacteristically with a Sunday...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
From Julie Bloom's September 18, 2008 "Arts, Briefly" column in the New York Times: Don Giovanni, Free on the Web The Royal Opera House in London will present a full-length opera online for the first time beginning Oct. 5, when...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Opera Vivente's take on the Mozart masterpiece delivers an entertaining, Americanized twist on the original B ad guys in the movies and on TV might spill more blood and use fouler language, but they've still got nothing on Don Giovanni, the original amoral machine who propels one of the greatest operas in the repertoire. Mozart's immortalization of the irresistible antihero, as contemptuous...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The Royal Opera House in London will present a full-length performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” online for the first time beginning Oct. 5.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
"A performance of the masterpiece, filmed at London's Covent Garden earlier this month, will be put on the Royal Opera's new site on 5 October... Archive material includes first night cast lists going back to 1946. The website also features trailers, interviews with artists and documentary footage."...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Rupert Christiansen reviews Varjak Paw by The Opera Group and Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... going to broadcast the event live to a hundred cinemas just compounded the crime. What, piping Don Giovanni to the proles? Pearls before swine!
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
There's only one blemish on Francesca Zambello's vivid production of Don Giovanni, with which the Royal Opera is opening its season. And this is the giant forefinger which swings down from the heavens – like the original 'It Could Be You' advert for the Lottery – to send the reprobate hero to his doom. But the cast is as good as it's ever been, with Simon Keenlyside as the Don, Joyce DiDonato...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
The sun rose on the western horizon this morning...howler monkeys just flew out of my ass while signing arias from Don Giovanni...and the perpetually conservative Chicago Tribune, which has endorsed the Republican candidate in every presidential election of the past...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The Uruguayan bass Erwin Schrott, who is known for his smoldering stage presence, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s latest production of “Don Giovanni.”
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
In its current revival, which opened on Saturday afternoon, Marthe Keller’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” stands as a plausible representative of the Gelb aesthetic that elevates theater to a near par with music.
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
A sunny day, not today, in the Financial District. By Amy Langfield/NewYorkology New Golden Age of opera at Met with Salome, Don Giovanni, La Gioconda (Post) Now, having seen the opening week of the new Met season (and its...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The cast of Don Giovanni reveals characters' traits and shares favourite arias from the production.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Opera fans will be able to watch the whole of Mozart's Don Giovanni online from next month after a major redesign of the Royal Opera House website.
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Don Giovanni, Free on the Web (JULIE BLOOM, 9/18/08, NY Times) The Royal Opera House in London will present a full-length opera online for the first time beginning Oct. 5, when audiences will be able to log on to the company’s Web site and watch a performance of Mozart’s “ Don Giovanni .” As part of the introduction of the site, www.roh.org.uk , the company will make it possible to view...
