Above : Peter Mattei stars as the title character in The Met: Live in HD production of “Don Giovanni.” (Photo/Fathom Events) Amoral behavior can lead to a bed end. That, in short, is the message of ...

ANCHOR INTRO: San Diego Opera opened Don Giovanni over the weekend. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says the production uses the visual design to frame the title character in new ways. CLIP Opening ...

Many contemporary musicians are plugged in — amplifiers, microphones and electric instruments. But these singers don’t need any of it. With booming voices that rise above an expressive orchestra, ...

Tempe native Richard Ollarsaba has sung the titular role of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Opera Hong Kong, Lyric Opera Chicago and on a handful of other stages. This weekend, he will bring it to Tucson ...

Baritone vocalist Brian James Myer, who plays the titular role of this opera production, agrees. He is more than familiar with the source material, having thrice played Masetto (Zerlina’s jealous ...

A buzz of excitement filled the air before the start of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Dominion Energy Center on Friday. The rousing ovations at the end signified this production well exceeded ...

For most people in the audience, the first surprise – apart from discovering that the opening scene is Mozart/Da Ponte’s in embryo (Marcus Swielicki as Don Giovanni, Alexandra Dunaeva as Donna Anna ...

In Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the ...

You see a movie you haven’t seen in years, and there’s that one scene that brings on the “Oh, I remember now!” epiphany. We had that at Linda Rondstadt Music Hall on Saturday, April 27, when Arizona ...

In modern day terms, he is a sexual predator who racks up conquests and kills a man by duel without remorse. And, just like in BOF’s earlier production of “Rigoletto," says Jonathon Loy, stage ...

A dark, enigmatic staging of Mozart’s opera brings together the director Romeo Castellucci and the conductor Teodor Currentzis. By Ben Miller SALZBURG, Austria — “Chi son io, tu non saprai,” the stage ...

Near the end of New York City Opera’s new Don Giovanni, the murdered Commendatore staggers, zombielike, from his coffin—which is pretty much what the company is doing, too. Back from the dead but not ...