. A further question for ENO, which remains in a delicate financial and artistic position, is whether it can fill the huge house for 12 performances of such a critically despised production. All things considered, it's extraordinary that Don Giovanni is back in rehearsal - for a second-chance revival at the Coliseum season later this month. < Sein Opernregiedebüt gab er 1996 mit Bretóns Zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma am Teatro Tivoli Barcelona. He has charisma. Don Giovanni.Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2002. It is very odd that the interpretation was seen in terms of violation and sacrilege. But it says advance ticket sales are "very healthy". performed in this production, as the Don for this). Conductor: Bertrand de This production has been seen in other countries, and only here in Britain is a scandal. He has a gun. Everyone in his Giovanni seems to be a streetwise, drug-abusing prole, which might be thought to rob Giovanni of his authority.

Having just done a spiritedly rude Entfuhrung in Berlin that involved sado-masochistic nipple-slicing, he is preparing a Wozzeck for Barcelona.When I ask what horrors he's thinking up for this, he tells me in a hurt voice that my questions "are not polite". … Cast: Wojtek Drabowicz (Don Giovanni), Kwanchul Youn (Leporello), Regina Schörg (Donna Anna), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Anatoly Kocherga (Commendatore), Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio), Marisa Martins (Zerlina), Felipe Bou (Masetto). He's not what you expect from his work. And from then on Bieito became an Edinburgh regular, with spoken or sung shows (Life is a Dream, Barbaric Comedies, Hamlet, Celestina, Trovatore . In any case Donna Anna First time around, it seems plausible that the shock at seeing a coke-snorting, beer-swilling, shell-suited Don … I prefer to please everybody.

"This", Bieito says, getting annoyed, "is really boring. April! is fast at times too fast for his ensemble, though vastly better than in hisLink to posts with practical information as well as reviews from the Bayreuth Festival by clicking on the photograph aboveEverýthing you need to know about the Salzburg Festival - click on the photograph At least this is the impression I get.. Why should the dramatis personae obey him when he's just a yob like all the rest? "Who are these critics?" Dann dürfen wir Ihnen mit Freude verkünden, dass Sie ab sofort und vor dem offiziellen Vorverkaufsstart, Karten bis Juli 2021 buchen dürfen. Somehow they prefer something that draws a veil over the deep issues." "If there is, for instance, an explicit or extreme production of Hamlet, people tend to shrug their shoulders and say, 'There'll be another production next week.' If they got out a bit more they'd see much wilder things on dramatic stages.

His previous productions were The Soldiers, The Marksman, Madame Butterfly, Armida, and Dialogues of the Carmélites, as well as Gianni Schicchi and Bluebeard’s Castle. .

There was a lack of sophistication in the reaction from both critics and the audience. Don Giovanni is quite happy shagging girls in the back of the car, the

"The world is cruel and ill; and young people today have this illness, going to the edge of their lives, with no God, nothing. It’s very easy to find out any topic on net as compared to books, as I found this post at this site.DVD. of young people living on the edge of society and constantly much. This season at the Komische Oper Berlin, Calixto Bieito will stage Franz Schreker’s underlying ideas of the work, from which Bieito essentially does not deviated Billy. created massive scandal when seen at the English National Opera, London in 2001. I don't know how you can't see that [Bieito's production is] a very serious examination of the piece." Some may feel, therefore, that a revival is a recipe for disaster. Parry says Bieito is "extremely musical", and that past attacks on the show as a frenetic mess were unjustified.

Donna Elvira, on the other hand, is disgusted when There is nothing more to say. He regarded Bieito's work as deeply moralistic. Der offizielle Vorverkauf startet am 07. The moment when the Don sings his serenade, in Bieito's production into a telephone, is about "the loneliness of anonymous sex" Parry says; Bieito brings out the "sexual mess that Anna and Ottavio are in" and "the tenderness and violence of Zerlina and Masetto's relationship". is mightily pissed off at Donna Elvira, when she realises that she also has had The fury associated with the production shows no sign of abating. Although the audience reaction in Germany was lively ("People barracked and I used to have to shout at them to be quiet"), the critical reception was much more considered than in Britain. Production:  Calixto Bieito. "It is partly because their articles are much longer and there is still the tradition there of proper reportage." And if I hear anyone else complain that Giovanni wouldn't have done this or that because he's a gentleman, I'll slap them. seeking boundaries.