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Los Angeles Philharmonic's 'Don Giovanni' Stars The Music
latimes.com 2 weeks, 5 days agoThe opera, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and with design by Frank Gehry and Laura and Kate Mulleavy, is a semi-staged production.There've been commedia dell'arte versions of "Don Giovanni" and a 3-D version of "Don Giovanni." Mozart's terminally debauched antihero has been reimagined as a kind of peruked Hugh Hefner and as a junkie with a hypodermic needle stuck in his arm and aMcDonald's hamburger on his breath.
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Spirited Singing Fails To Enliven Mozart Opera
msnbc.com 1 week, 5 days agoVIENNA (AP) -- All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito." No less an expert than Richard Wagner called Mozart's last opera "stiff and dry." And that's how the work came across at its latest reincarnation on Thursday. Musically, the evening was a treat. In her role as Sesto, Elina Garanca's big mezzo voice easily powered into effortless crescendos that rode atop the orchestra before throttling down with equal aplomb to perform delicate pass
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