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Set and lighting designer Jan Versweyveld - van Hove’s partner and longtime collaborator - has framed the action on a street shadowed by buildings inspired by brutalist architecture.

“He cannot hold back his real urge, like a predator.” “But that also goes wrong pretty quickly,” he said. It’s a moment you think, oh, this could be a man who could be in a normal relationship with a woman. “I have directed it as tender, not like a rape. “There’s a beautiful scene where he gets intimate with her,” van Hove said. The director allows just one hint of something better in the Don’s nature, and that’s when he encounters the peasant girl Zerlina and woos her in the famous duet “La ci darem la mano” (“There you will give me your hand.”) “His confident take on the unredeemable Giovanni seems just right for the times in which we live,” Gelb said.

“Mozart couldn’t have been clearer about his intention.”ĭepicting the Don as a “sociopath” may surprise Met audiences who are used to a somewhat more appealing portrayal, but general manager Peter Gelb thinks it will resonate. “The original title was ‘Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni,’ (The Libertine Punished, or Don Giovanni),” van Hove pointed out. The libretto calls for the older man to die in a duel, but van Hove turns the Don into a cold-blooded killer who casually shoots his opponent. The opera opens with the Don attempting to force himself on Donna Anna and then killing her father, the Commendatore.

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