Friday, May 25, 2012

Don Giovanni at Disney Hall

It was hard to imagine how Dudamel and the LA Phil would perform the Mozart Opera, Don Giovanni with 8 opera singers and sets designed by the Disney Hall architect, Frank Gehry, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale on the Disney stage.  It was amazing, weird, beautiful, stylized, and certainly memorable.
The orchestra was nestled into a higher stage located where the Chorale would sit.  The Chorale were higher yet in those seats reserved for the Chorus on either side.  The area was draped in black with black crinkled material and everyone dressed in black.
The stage and most of the singers were in white or black with this white crinkled material all around them and these huge white boxes that were moved around by men in white moving slowly in choreographed walks.
Of course Don Giovanni eventually received his just reward for his sins that were summarized in the "catalogue" sang by his assistant, Leporello. who listed over 2000 conquests including over 1000 in Spain.

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