Into the woods
Claus Guth directs Don Giovanni in Paris (****½) [live]
It came as no real surprise that the Opéra de Paris would take Ivo van Hove's bleak, rather conventional Don Giovanni off the play calendar after just one season. Van Hove had his characters evolve in a gloomy labyrinth of concrete, an urban environment from which all life had disappeared. Claus Guth sets the action in a myst…
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