My Guardian review of Mariame Clément's new production of Don Giovanni to opens this year's Glyndebourne season.

It's short on sensuality and demonic fire in places, and I was less than overwhelmed by it, though Andrey Zhilikovsky is oh so sexy in the title role .......

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/21/don-giovanni-review-glyndebourne-mariame-clement-obsession-distress-and-danger-in-uneven-new-staging

@classicalmusic #Mozart #DonGiovanni #Glyndebourne

I’m intrigued. Anyone going to this? https://apnews.com/article/don-giovanni-met-ivo-van-hove-9c5477ddc3a312aa4253919044bbd65b #Opera #DonGiovanni #Music

Who’s ready for some OPERA? #dongiovanni #mozart

I miss opera so much I just sobbed through most of my first #Amadeus rewatch in years. (Maybe appropriate, since I suspect that movie poured the love of it into kid-me, way back when). Here's a peep from my box at Vienna State Opera right before #DonGiovanni in (IIRC) 2017 for #FensterFreitag. #wien #oper #WienerStaatsoper #Mozart

Mozart died #OTD in 1791.

So it's time to listen to the great Zinka Milanov as Donna Anna (and how!) in Don Giovanni, in San Francisco in 1943:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1u29EX76I

@classicalmusic #Mozart #Opera #DonGiovanni #ZinkaMilanov

Mozart died #OTD in 1791.

So it's timem to listen to the great Zinka Milanov as Donna Anna (and how!) in Don Giovanni, in San Francisco in 1943:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1u29EX76I

@classicalmusic #Mozart #Opera #DonGiovanni #ZinkaMilanov

In the absence of an opera house or a digital player, these wind band arrangements #Mozart's #DonGiovanni would've been the hit of the winter of 1787 in many European homes and communities. In 2022 this amazingly joyous music should be at the top of the charts. https://open.spotify.com/album/5zWQcd6D01dIfizkskeeZ9?si=PkA_kuj9Qk6zP7fBy6Q6SQ&utm_source=copy-link

In the absence of an opera house or a digital player, these wind band arrangements #Mozart's #DonGiovanni would've been the hit of the winter of 1787 in many European homes and communities. In 2022 this amazingly joyous music should be at the top of the charts. https://open.spotify.com/album/5zWQcd6D01dIfizkskeeZ9?si=PkA_kuj9Qk6zP7fBy6Q6SQ&utm_source=copy-link

In the absence of an opera house or a digital player, these wind band arrangements #Mozart's #DonGiovanni would've been the hit of the winter of 1787 in many European homes and communities. In 2022 this amazingly joyous music should be at the top of the charts.

In the absence of an opera house or a digital player, these wind band arrangements #Mozart's #DonGiovanni would've been the hit of the winter of 1787 in many European homes and communities. In 2022 this amazingly joyous music should be at the top of the charts.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5zWQcd6D01dIfizkskeeZ9?si=zQ2ikUh6Ta-yfaflDlwAMQ&utm_source=native-share-menu

Tagging @classicalmusic on the question of 7 favorite classical music composers! I'll put a spin on it and list 7 favorite #opera composers and my favorite opera of theirs.

#Verdi 🥳 #VIVAVERDI !!! 🥳 (#DonCarlos - French, 5-act version)
#Mozart (#DonGiovanni - but #CosiFanTutte is waaay up there)
#Puccini (#LaFanciullaDelWest)
#Massenet (#DonQuichotte)
#Tchaikovsky (#EugeneOnegin)
#Rossini (#IlBarbiere - yes, it's just so hilarious, but also #GuillaumeTell)
#Bellini (#IPuritani)