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Into the woods

Into the woods

Claus Guth directs Don Giovanni in Paris (****½) [live]

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Oct 14, 2023
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The sextet of the second act

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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