I find this video quite interesting and entertaining. Art, and the ideas involved with it are free to be reinterpreted, reinvented. This particular Don Giovanni has been both liked and disliked, and, whatever I might have to say about this, this performance polarizes opinions.
It's simply awful! It must be a bad joke! How dare a director make such a performance? It's a derision of Mozart.. And the opera. I'm learning to be an opera singer, but I won't play in this kind of music! Dreadful.
at the end, you hear that the audience is not certain, some heitates to applause... I don't take it too hard because opera amateurs pays their places very expensive, and this performance is not really one of the best. But it is a good try : Thomas Hampson, very good as Rossin's Figaro, is here quite persuasive, involved, and theatric. Well, agaist spyridon77 I didn't fancy Commendatore, he's like to be about to loose his dentures all the sing long. Choir ? good. Stage director is also fine
It's a shame Mr. Hampson allowed his artistic integrity to stand such an abhorrent compromise. I'm all for creative staging, but this is a little ridiculous.
You don´t have to be a snob to find this HORRIBLE, RIDICULOUS,GROTESQUE, CRAP ~a mockery and insult to Mozart and his sublime music....the one who realy deserves to rot in hell , is the director .
I love how it's the cool thing to bash on a certain performance on youtube simply because that's what everyone else is doing. i enjoyed it. As had been said before, I think the tempo that they go about it is way too fast, but it doesn't make it a bad interpretation. Well, except for when Leporello kills Giovanni. WTF was that about?
I'm all for reinterpreting opera in a modern context, but if they wanted to do that, could they at least use the proper tempo? This performance is bad, even without the Eurotrash decor and half naked woman being factored into it.
The good thing about this version is that even if you knew nothing about the plot you would know, because of how they sing, that the Commendatore is dead and that Don Giovanni is about to die.
I don't get all the negative reaction. It is precisely the fact that this music is immortal that it can interpreted and presented in new ways over centuries. Should science have the rigid and arrogant attitude of some of the people that posted their comments here, you folks would still have no penicillin! I advise you use your brains a little before writing such retrograde nonsense.
Exactly. If Mozart really wanted his Operas to be performed in an exact way, he would have included detailed notes on staging and wardrobe in the sheet music.
Seriously, a friend of mine told me about a rendition of Shakespeare's Julius Cesar in business suit. They said it was downright scary because of how much more relevant it made the play.
The only nice thing about this horrid version is the 20+ half-naked women standing in the back. Paradoxically it's also what makes it suck big time. Along with the hospital-themed décor and the nonsensical staging....
@HermiOdleProduction5: na, i dont think hes rolling in his grave. The only thing Mozart did apart from composing music was running after every skirt he saw. So he definitely wouldnt have minded half-naked women in his opera. But I also find it a bit silly...
I'm a little bit conservative but sometimes isn't a bad idea to use a mix of modernized and historical costumes and/or stage, as long as they don't change the story. However, this version is dreadful. The singers, the conductor and the orchestra may be great, but I think this "revised" (or distorted?) version changes the greatest of Mozart's operas in crap. This is the worse version of an opera (of any opera) I've ever seen.
This absolutely sucks! I have never seen anything as proposterous in all my fucking life. Its almost a mockery and someones over inflated ego trying to draw attention to themselves. It is as much an abomination as so called 'art' by idiots, such as the disgusting human being Tracy Emin.
He's not the devil. The Commendatore is a soul sent from heaven to warn Don Gio against his coming damnation. Hes saying "Repent' not "Dont you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" In the real opera, heaven is scarier than hell. This is just rubbish....
When I first saw the man at the table surrounded by all those women in bikini's...I was half expecting him to say "And now for something completely different..." ^_^
Not a big fan of the musical rendition but I have no problem whatsoever with the staging. Do we really need more lace and powdered wigs? I'm all pro the (semi-)historical approach, but we have those aplenty when it comes to Don Giovanni. As for the scantily-clad, objectified women: isn't that the essence of Don Giovanni's villainy and sin?
FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!.i HATE THESE "REVISIONIST' DIRECTORS! I THINK THAT THEY ACTUALLY HATE MOZART. THE BASTARDS! GHOMAS HAMPSON IS A GREAT ARTIST.a GREAT SHAME
I don't think he's protesting hell to much, with all the models in bikini he figures it's heaven. besides way to bright to represent hell, really think it's heaven.
Wow, what an awful production. Boring sterile sets, lousy acting. Girls in bikinis with some old man in a tux at a table? This is garbage. This is what happens when you get some hipster post-modern art moron to produce a classic opera. Sound is horrrible, singing is off at parts, too fast, no passion. If I were an opera singer, I would have never agreed to this. Compare this version of the scene with the one done in the Amadeus movie...now that's how it should be done!
This is the sort of rubbish that turns people away from immortal classic music. Mozart is rolling in his grave.. Shame on all of you people. Thomas Hampson is a clown but I'd pay big money to avoid watching this nonsense and anyone who participated in this abomination.
Actually, the snobbery of the critics here is what turns people off Opera. To think Mozart was criticized in his time, particularly for Don Giovanni, for being unconventional.
@memoe911 I can't agree with you more. Two years ago, the Metropolitan Opera of New York put on a similar travesty, but with Tosca. Richard Peduzzi was the scenographer. It was a disaster. Unfortunately, this is the modern trend.
What's rubbish about that? It looks good and brings the whole story very much to the point. After all, Don Giovanni was an homme à femmes and he had them all. So what's wrong about having them all come after him from hell? Very well done, I think.
I can't say I understand this version. In places the tempo is to high and the scenario is "I don't know what". I couldn't really enjoy this version. :-/
une des rares mises en scène "post-moderne" que je trouve regardable. Je dis pas que c'est excellent mais ça a le mérite de ne pas être complètement grotesque comme on le voit trop souvent de nos jours. Bien sûr, ça ne vaut pas à mon sens la "vraie" mise en scène. Par chance, le Commandeur assure bien, mais Leporello est grotesque dans son pull et Don Juan parait complètement effacé.
Well...interesting version but I'm a traditionalist. I prefer my version set in the time period the opera was written to reflect. I recently saw a version at the Shubert in New haven, CT. In the opening scene Don Giovanni whips out a pistol and smokes Donna Anna's father during the duel scene.
Not my cup of tea but thank you for the post and alternate version.
How does the commendatore sing with his tongue blocking the opening of his mouth like that?! Geez that's distracting. I wonder if he realizes that it's doing that every time he opens his mouth to sing, even in his lower range. I've seen really bad tongue tension from singers too, but he wins. D'archangelo is Leporello, Hampson an Giovanni. I like the cast, not the production.
@hubcity1981 if you listen for it you can actually hear the effect doing that is having on his diction. It's distracting as anything. especially unfortunate given that his voice is excellent.
unfortunately the acting makes it look like the singers are horrified by the production design not the situation.
I hear it now. its like a constant hidden "L" consonant in every vowel he sings. a hint of it in EVERY vowel. Strange. I usually see this from Korean male singers. What's his excuse?
there was just no idea for this scene so he put chicks on the stage. perhaps there really was an idea but it was not too far from wishing there were some chicks on the stage.
This thing made no sense and if anyone has read the English version they would know what is actually happening, and why do modern interpretations never show Don Giovanni as a "young" nobleman?
Well that Commendatore entered into the light doesn't mean that he goes to hell too. Apart from my taste, I think the esthetic is well done, but the voices are a bit weak don't you think?
tiene las mejores dinámicas que he visto... el tempo está un poco rápido pero el paso del piano al fortissimo en 2:22 y en otros pasajes es genial... además es una producción muy dramática, con nieve, chicas que juzgan a don giovanni, y una luz que se traga todo... es realmente impactante, da hasta miedo
Singing is impressive but but why do some directors think their own 'smart' ideas are of greater genius than Mozart and Da Ponte? Where is the drama in that last scene? The whole production is hopeless! No wonder the audience weren't sure whether to applaud!
Seems that the production wanted to add some eroticism in this scene. Unfortunately, in spite the beauty of the women in this scene, I think the thrilling and horror ambience that Mozart's devised for this climax is almost lost when treated in such a way. Death, fear and eternal damnation is hard to associate with women in bikinis. perhaps they want to symbolize just lust and flesh. Interesting voices, however.
Che schifo di ambientazione per un opera antica, peccato perche' le voci son molto belle!!! ma un opera antica va ambientata nella sua epoca e non in un "astronave bianchissima e nababba piena di dinne in toples" è assurdo..!!!!!
@indispettito perche' la gente non pensa alla musica e all'epoca in cui è stata scritta ma a vedere un po' di "ciccia bona".... anche se magari alcuni prendono 2 piccioni con una fava...:-)
@BaritoneRobinson yes . maybe its the only way to represent horror. within Commandattore's expression/face. i felt afraid while he sings. .... i have a feeling his tongue will snap some day from doing that.
esto no es don giovanni, se cargan todo el ambiente... han profanado algo de lo mas sagrado que hay.,, aunque me gusta la voz de don giovanni del 0:30 al 0:34 pero por favor... leporello vestido asi.. y el commendatore... esto no se puede hacer...
Qué cagada, hermano!! Una buena mierda...!!! y el "tempo", todo apurado, además... ni siquiera la salvaron musicalmente. Déjense de chorear!! Vayan a hacer opera de verdad!! Manga de cretinos!! Pobre Mozart... se retuerce en su fosa común!! no se merece que le hagan esto con su mejor obra!!!!!
Damn dawg this makes me want to see a version with Richard Gere as Don Giovanni. That would be pretty badass. And while I agree that the statue is better, I like the flushed-in-white stage and the old dude's lazy eye. That lazy eye is pretty scary itself, hehe.
This scene is perfectly ridiculous. Because of things like that, today I don't go to the opera. I prefer imagine the true scene in my mind, with a record.
Stop the carnage with all your farcical "modernizations"!
At that rate, why don't you update the music, too? Why in the museums, abstract "artists" don't "update" Boticelli's or Van Dyck's paintings?
The noble's art opera's graet slap on the bourgois audiance face, Why so much auching below. Sorry guys but you must live your age. Commandotore might be stonelike, but you are not expected to be.
I am all for re-adapting classics- I think it is important- but I personally Hate!!! this shit! its like a chepa strip club scene from a second rate tv programme- I get what they are trying to depict but its not working
peculiar interpretation.. to be honest all this post-modern experimenting with classical operatic pieces is a bit disturbing... often it makes little sense of the original work
Commendatore de smoking kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
gabrioulo 5 days ago
The pace is too fast, those singers are confused.
lallanzinho 1 week ago
I find this video quite interesting and entertaining. Art, and the ideas involved with it are free to be reinterpreted, reinvented. This particular Don Giovanni has been both liked and disliked, and, whatever I might have to say about this, this performance polarizes opinions.
leonardostriddels 1 week ago
no va a faltar un boludo que diga "en la epoca de Motazar tambien era escandaloso que..." o alguna ganzada por el estilo...
hectorfprez 2 weeks ago
Wtf?
1bol1 2 weeks ago
Don't get so worked up it's just music... Have a little fun...
jseals811 2 weeks ago
It's simply awful! It must be a bad joke! How dare a director make such a performance? It's a derision of Mozart.. And the opera. I'm learning to be an opera singer, but I won't play in this kind of music! Dreadful.
vi923dav 2 weeks ago
I assume the girls are there to distract the audience from the otherwise hideous production.
TAVSWHBIII 2 weeks ago
What the HELL is this crap?!
smzig 3 weeks ago
What's the name pf Leporello ? He played Mozart's Figaro with Netrebko in Salzburg the same year I think, but his name doesn'n reamain to me...
SocrateAdmirer 4 weeks ago
@SocrateAdmirer It´s Ildebrando D´Arcangelo.........have a look to the right - there is more of him.....
hhpm2970 3 weeks ago
at the end, you hear that the audience is not certain, some heitates to applause... I don't take it too hard because opera amateurs pays their places very expensive, and this performance is not really one of the best. But it is a good try : Thomas Hampson, very good as Rossin's Figaro, is here quite persuasive, involved, and theatric. Well, agaist spyridon77 I didn't fancy Commendatore, he's like to be about to loose his dentures all the sing long. Choir ? good. Stage director is also fine
SocrateAdmirer 4 weeks ago
1. Don G should be bass (or bass-baritone), here he is a tenor
2. Wrong age set
3. Acting doesnt follow the libretto
4. They act silly
5. Wtf stage director
Choir, Commendatore and Leporello sing fine at least
spyridon77 1 month ago 4
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stefangordoni1 1 week ago
MOZART??????????????????????????????????????
lorenzogavanna 1 month ago
Blech!
operachad 1 month ago
No. Wait. What the hell the Godfather is doing there? xD
AlenaD92 1 month ago
Bizarro!!!!!!!!!
ralalaralora 1 month ago
Uh, this actually makes a lot of sense. Get over yourselves.
gaelwynmackwyn 2 months ago
not a bad adaptation but could have done with the girls attacking him and dragging him away at the end
alien2661992 2 months ago
Fucking awful.
dmcd002 2 months ago
VERGOGNA!
KASIMIR1851 2 months ago
Il caro Amadeus si starà sbellicando dalle risate....
KASIMIR1851 2 months ago
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KASIMIR1851 2 months ago
That's Don Corleone, not Commendatore.
sebazwykoppl 2 months ago 6
It's a shame Mr. Hampson allowed his artistic integrity to stand such an abhorrent compromise. I'm all for creative staging, but this is a little ridiculous.
chiarocontralto 2 months ago
sarebbe un magnifico finale per l'ultima "Cena elegante" di Berlusconi !
This would be a great final for the last "elegant party" of Mr. Berlusconi !
abelbeau99 2 months ago 6
Donde lo sublime y lo ridiculo lindan.
PATRIARCA173 2 months ago
de la verga
DasKindespiel 2 months ago
grotesque !
moiselechat 3 months ago
Can't understand all the haters here. This is fresh and very "Mozarticsh" staging.
imartynow 3 months ago
That's terrible. It's a shame for such delicate opera.
trimind10 3 months ago
Ma chi ha avuto il coraggio di mettere in scena una porcheria del genere?
lucatorrini1 3 months ago
you are sad moralists, Mozart would appreciate, this staging is in his style...
MrMarcobussoletti 3 months ago in playlist DON GIOVANNI
You don´t have to be a snob to find this HORRIBLE, RIDICULOUS,GROTESQUE, CRAP ~a mockery and insult to Mozart and his sublime music....the one who realy deserves to rot in hell , is the director .
ingriddoppler 3 months ago 2
Geschmacklos ! Die hervorragenden Sanger sind zu bedauern, dass sie so einen Unfug mitmachen müssen.
kjbussard 3 months ago
plus a voir qu' à écouter
Barytendo 3 months ago
regina schivosa, musica unica, grande mozart!....
anzolettilino 3 months ago
cos'è questa bestemmia? al massimo lo si può ascoltare ma non vedere. E' un insulto al libretto originale
GarcioBass4 3 months ago
Does somebody know who was the Director of this... ?
SparafucileDiMantova 3 months ago
@SparafucileDiMantova un matto!
BaroneDiTrombonok 3 months ago
Vergogna!!
SparafucileDiMantova 3 months ago
I love how it's the cool thing to bash on a certain performance on youtube simply because that's what everyone else is doing. i enjoyed it. As had been said before, I think the tempo that they go about it is way too fast, but it doesn't make it a bad interpretation. Well, except for when Leporello kills Giovanni. WTF was that about?
atombomber25 4 months ago
però mi piace il commendatore in abito marziale che in modo glaciale parla a un don giovanni sconvolto...unica nota positiva di questa orrenda regia
BaroneDiTrombonok 4 months ago
what's with all the partially clothed women?
mrtyles 4 months ago
you call this rubbish? you gotta see the rat version of Lohengrin at Bayreuth...
abcbussol 4 months ago
I like the twist of Leporello stabbing Don G.
Albaloo292 4 months ago
Dear God that was horrible.
jamofjarr 4 months ago
I'm all for reinterpreting opera in a modern context, but if they wanted to do that, could they at least use the proper tempo? This performance is bad, even without the Eurotrash decor and half naked woman being factored into it.
Sotvanful 4 months ago
I think il comentatore don't have the tongue
OltionShaba 4 months ago
I cannot even comprehend this... Is this how weak our understanding or the soul has become?
Kitabo27 4 months ago
Well, I have seen better....
this is just pitiful
miriel686 4 months ago
pathetic....
BlueLabelWhiskey 4 months ago
The good thing about this version is that even if you knew nothing about the plot you would know, because of how they sing, that the Commendatore is dead and that Don Giovanni is about to die.
FernandoTUSAZ 4 months ago
I don't get all the negative reaction. It is precisely the fact that this music is immortal that it can interpreted and presented in new ways over centuries. Should science have the rigid and arrogant attitude of some of the people that posted their comments here, you folks would still have no penicillin! I advise you use your brains a little before writing such retrograde nonsense.
bonacim08 4 months ago 3
@bonacim08
Exactly. If Mozart really wanted his Operas to be performed in an exact way, he would have included detailed notes on staging and wardrobe in the sheet music.
Seriously, a friend of mine told me about a rendition of Shakespeare's Julius Cesar in business suit. They said it was downright scary because of how much more relevant it made the play.
Empty0Set 4 months ago
The only nice thing about this horrid version is the 20+ half-naked women standing in the back. Paradoxically it's also what makes it suck big time. Along with the hospital-themed décor and the nonsensical staging....
malcken 4 months ago 2
All I can hear in my head is Tom Hulce's (actor in Amadeus) Mozart laugh.
Uhhahahahahahaa. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Aure217 4 months ago
I think i just vomited in my mouth.... let me check, yup, that's vomit all right.
jhavins12 4 months ago 4
A algunos escenógrafos habría que prohibirles plasmar su "talento" de por vida.
Rainerlau 4 months ago
Oh, Jesus...
smichelle65 5 months ago 15
You have GOT.... to be kidding me. Wow.....just....wow. Mozart is rolling in his grave.
HermiOdleProduction5 5 months ago 19
@HermiOdleProduction5 What's the problem with the scene? I don't see anything I wouldn't understand...
glob85 2 months ago
@HermiOdleProduction5: na, i dont think hes rolling in his grave. The only thing Mozart did apart from composing music was running after every skirt he saw. So he definitely wouldnt have minded half-naked women in his opera. But I also find it a bit silly...
hoplite669 1 month ago
@HermiOdleProduction5 Why?
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What a crock of shit
MuscleDaddyCMH 5 months ago
how is this even possible?
Bastasbra 5 months ago 2
so many nice asses that had to skip back many times to see enough of them...but unfortunately taht's vere the niceness ends. Rest is crap.
ajwolf 5 months ago
Ridiculous.
blackthorncross 5 months ago
Miese Inszenierung, stimmlich nichts Besonderes, der Comendatore hat Angst das ihm die Dritten rausfallen.
Blacktomkay 5 months ago 2
All the play and scenes are out of the original context and produce a kind of sublimation of the opera .
MrMarcobussoletti 5 months ago 2
@MrMarcobussoletti
That's Don Giovanni, the famous fucker! Remember "three thousand of spain women" from Leporello's aria! Girls are at a right place! :-)))))
MrAudioProducer 5 months ago
I'm a little bit conservative but sometimes isn't a bad idea to use a mix of modernized and historical costumes and/or stage, as long as they don't change the story. However, this version is dreadful. The singers, the conductor and the orchestra may be great, but I think this "revised" (or distorted?) version changes the greatest of Mozart's operas in crap. This is the worse version of an opera (of any opera) I've ever seen.
Bach1Beethoven 5 months ago 2
@Bach1Beethoven but what the all that is consided fucking is those gils are doing there? i think that the statue guy is what make this ophar cool.
abarrathemaster 5 months ago
hahaha what unenthusiastic applause
11792654 5 months ago 4
I'm gob smacked.. what a load of crap !
simmojag 6 months ago 5
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Vocaloidonii 6 months ago 4
This absolutely sucks! I have never seen anything as proposterous in all my fucking life. Its almost a mockery and someones over inflated ego trying to draw attention to themselves. It is as much an abomination as so called 'art' by idiots, such as the disgusting human being Tracy Emin.
foltano 6 months ago 4
He's not the devil. The Commendatore is a soul sent from heaven to warn Don Gio against his coming damnation. Hes saying "Repent' not "Dont you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" In the real opera, heaven is scarier than hell. This is just rubbish....
carltonpowers 6 months ago 4
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HermiOdleProduction5 6 months ago 4
When I first saw the man at the table surrounded by all those women in bikini's...I was half expecting him to say "And now for something completely different..." ^_^
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there are plenty of morons here who like to pass off as purists of some sort. it's the music that matters, not the costumes.
0casteloencantado0 6 months ago
unusual interpretation for sure
GeneralForgeron 7 months ago
di chi è questa me-rda?
MaximusTenor 7 months ago
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo has an amazing voice...but he can't act. He looks angry when he should be quaking with fear!
Taenyr 7 months ago
leporello's quite the looker
DiVeronica 7 months ago
Not a big fan of the musical rendition but I have no problem whatsoever with the staging. Do we really need more lace and powdered wigs? I'm all pro the (semi-)historical approach, but we have those aplenty when it comes to Don Giovanni. As for the scantily-clad, objectified women: isn't that the essence of Don Giovanni's villainy and sin?
MrStefanovitsch 8 months ago
modern don giovanni????
Archraveful 8 months ago
FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!.i HATE THESE "REVISIONIST' DIRECTORS! I THINK THAT THEY ACTUALLY HATE MOZART. THE BASTARDS! GHOMAS HAMPSON IS A GREAT ARTIST.a GREAT SHAME
TheSmoshmy 8 months ago
I don't think he's protesting hell to much, with all the models in bikini he figures it's heaven. besides way to bright to represent hell, really think it's heaven.
13ladivina13 8 months ago 3
horrible, ajjajajaja
sanpicolo 8 months ago
Wow, what an awful production. Boring sterile sets, lousy acting. Girls in bikinis with some old man in a tux at a table? This is garbage. This is what happens when you get some hipster post-modern art moron to produce a classic opera. Sound is horrrible, singing is off at parts, too fast, no passion. If I were an opera singer, I would have never agreed to this. Compare this version of the scene with the one done in the Amadeus movie...now that's how it should be done!
zipthepinhead 8 months ago
Don Giovanni non sa cantare ed ha una bruttissima voce.
theulkar 8 months ago
peace of shit)
Duch33rus 9 months ago
This is the sort of rubbish that turns people away from immortal classic music. Mozart is rolling in his grave.. Shame on all of you people. Thomas Hampson is a clown but I'd pay big money to avoid watching this nonsense and anyone who participated in this abomination.
memoe911 10 months ago 27
@memoe911
Actually, the snobbery of the critics here is what turns people off Opera. To think Mozart was criticized in his time, particularly for Don Giovanni, for being unconventional.
Empty0Set 4 months ago
@memoe911 What's so offensive about it? The lingerie? Don Giovanni is an opera about sexual degradation after all...!
JeeRant 4 months ago
@memoe911 I can't agree with you more. Two years ago, the Metropolitan Opera of New York put on a similar travesty, but with Tosca. Richard Peduzzi was the scenographer. It was a disaster. Unfortunately, this is the modern trend.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa9219 3 months ago
@memoe911 What's wrong with this depiction?
jjc1991biscuits 3 months ago
@memoe911
What's rubbish about that? It looks good and brings the whole story very much to the point. After all, Don Giovanni was an homme à femmes and he had them all. So what's wrong about having them all come after him from hell? Very well done, I think.
veroniqueotto1 3 months ago
I can't say I understand this version. In places the tempo is to high and the scenario is "I don't know what". I couldn't really enjoy this version. :-/
Calliopeia666 10 months ago
In the windmills of your mind...its snowing!
0Emile0P 10 months ago
All these women are models, where are the 1003 fatso's he banged in spain? now they would make a good finish..
0Emile0P 10 months ago
@0Emile0P Nice observation
malcken 7 months ago
I'm not saying that it works...but it is about sex and power....
gergsar 10 months ago
une des rares mises en scène "post-moderne" que je trouve regardable. Je dis pas que c'est excellent mais ça a le mérite de ne pas être complètement grotesque comme on le voit trop souvent de nos jours. Bien sûr, ça ne vaut pas à mon sens la "vraie" mise en scène. Par chance, le Commandeur assure bien, mais Leporello est grotesque dans son pull et Don Juan parait complètement effacé.
Atrux1 10 months ago
rubbish
thedarkhunt 11 months ago
Grotesque !
moiselechat 1 year ago
spettacolo pornografico.
ranigema 1 year ago 25
I'm just not gettin it I guess.....
Adamthome1 1 year ago
Don't get that? Highly recommend you watch the entire opera, just for the sake of, for a lack of a better word: "getting it"
JonathanGiraldo99 11 months ago
/watch?v=z3Dpf_JeOkE
Astraios91 1 year ago
Well...interesting version but I'm a traditionalist. I prefer my version set in the time period the opera was written to reflect. I recently saw a version at the Shubert in New haven, CT. In the opening scene Don Giovanni whips out a pistol and smokes Donna Anna's father during the duel scene.
Not my cup of tea but thank you for the post and alternate version.
Quasimodo1957 1 year ago
Plus de musique que des images!
INFACTparis 1 year ago
REALLY stupid. Specially in the end.
leomulder 1 year ago
douchebag don giovanni
dxward 1 year ago
wow he can barely sustain the notes
ah332 1 year ago
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that sucked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jgirgis81 1 year ago
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jgirgis81 1 year ago
Oh my Lord what the bloddy devil did they do to this?. Yes its all new looking and might seem creative But For the love of God this sucks
jgirgis81 1 year ago 3
Puaaaaajjjjjj
FernV8 1 year ago
this is in poor taste and is also dubbed
ThePerfectNote91 1 year ago
If one has to modernise this, he could have made the commendattore in a television or something. this is just bad.
Benjaminy2k 1 year ago
Chi è il Commendatore?
BaroneDiTrombonok 1 year ago
Awesome
timesman2 1 year ago
How does the commendatore sing with his tongue blocking the opening of his mouth like that?! Geez that's distracting. I wonder if he realizes that it's doing that every time he opens his mouth to sing, even in his lower range. I've seen really bad tongue tension from singers too, but he wins. D'archangelo is Leporello, Hampson an Giovanni. I like the cast, not the production.
hubcity1981 1 year ago
@hubcity1981 if you listen for it you can actually hear the effect doing that is having on his diction. It's distracting as anything. especially unfortunate given that his voice is excellent.
unfortunately the acting makes it look like the singers are horrified by the production design not the situation.
IncredibleGoliath 1 year ago
@IncredibleGoliath
I hear it now. its like a constant hidden "L" consonant in every vowel he sings. a hint of it in EVERY vowel. Strange. I usually see this from Korean male singers. What's his excuse?
hubcity1981 1 year ago
wow, tempo is messed u
faleru 1 year ago
there was just no idea for this scene so he put chicks on the stage. perhaps there really was an idea but it was not too far from wishing there were some chicks on the stage.
GrauenausderTiefe 1 year ago
This thing made no sense and if anyone has read the English version they would know what is actually happening, and why do modern interpretations never show Don Giovanni as a "young" nobleman?
u805 1 year ago
Well, the walk-on performers are good, very good.
TedMichaelMorgan 1 year ago
Psychoanalytic set up. May be a modern interpretation. Sexuality and, power is there.
kerimun 1 year ago
Well that Commendatore entered into the light doesn't mean that he goes to hell too. Apart from my taste, I think the esthetic is well done, but the voices are a bit weak don't you think?
superzombie92 1 year ago
Wait, he's suppost to go to hell not heaven. He goes to heaven in this production lol!
OperaBaritoneJoe 1 year ago
Si el infierno está lleno de mujeres así... Huumm a reflexionar jajaja
Kjevois 1 year ago
Don Giovanni " Vanessa Beecroft " style
vodacat 1 year ago
tiene las mejores dinámicas que he visto... el tempo está un poco rápido pero el paso del piano al fortissimo en 2:22 y en otros pasajes es genial... además es una producción muy dramática, con nieve, chicas que juzgan a don giovanni, y una luz que se traga todo... es realmente impactante, da hasta miedo
musicadelaesfera 1 year ago
No.
aguirre79 1 year ago
I'm confused... So, he gets to go to hell with all these beautiful women?
cevorion79 1 year ago 3
@cevorion79 Yes. And his punishment is that he cant touch them. :P
HerrWarja 1 year ago 3
I agree @jaydoggy531
icunurse01 1 year ago
Madre mía!, ojalá presentaran esta ópera así aquí!
supersmashmike45 1 year ago
"The Revenge of the Maitre"....
Barbapippo 1 year ago
@Barbapippo "Ameriques" wasn't based on "Le Sacre"...please stop saying that.
BeauJames59 1 year ago
Singing is impressive but but why do some directors think their own 'smart' ideas are of greater genius than Mozart and Da Ponte? Where is the drama in that last scene? The whole production is hopeless! No wonder the audience weren't sure whether to applaud!
kenedwards5 1 year ago
It is idiotic.
Kitabo27 1 year ago
Seems that the production wanted to add some eroticism in this scene. Unfortunately, in spite the beauty of the women in this scene, I think the thrilling and horror ambience that Mozart's devised for this climax is almost lost when treated in such a way. Death, fear and eternal damnation is hard to associate with women in bikinis. perhaps they want to symbolize just lust and flesh. Interesting voices, however.
logica10 1 year ago 3
singers , tempo tempo tempo!!!!!!!
cristianbenetti 1 year ago
Che schifo di ambientazione per un opera antica, peccato perche' le voci son molto belle!!! ma un opera antica va ambientata nella sua epoca e non in un "astronave bianchissima e nababba piena di dinne in toples" è assurdo..!!!!!
hotmusic84 1 year ago
@hotmusic84
anch'io sono tradizionalista, ma se questo allestimento, con tette e cosce all'aria, servisse ad avvicinare il pubblico all'opera lirica, perchè no?
indispettito 1 year ago
@indispettito perche' la gente non pensa alla musica e all'epoca in cui è stata scritta ma a vedere un po' di "ciccia bona".... anche se magari alcuni prendono 2 piccioni con una fava...:-)
hotmusic84 1 year ago
@hotmusic84
ahahah questa è buona: e devo ammettere che in quanto a volatili e leguminose ce n'è un po' per tutti i gusti
io comunue, per non sbalgiarmi, l'ho comprata in internet, così me la godo a casina con un po' d0aria condizionata e un pimm's
ciao hotm.
indispettito 1 year ago
We all know Don Giovanni was a girlly man - why spell it out with the bikinis? And where's the high drama?
ahartify 1 year ago 2
The Commandattore needs to keep him tongue down and support his voice some other way! :)
BaritoneRobinson 1 year ago
@BaritoneRobinson yes . maybe its the only way to represent horror. within Commandattore's expression/face. i felt afraid while he sings. .... i have a feeling his tongue will snap some day from doing that.
rakkulchonr 1 year ago
while i;m usually much in favor of hot women in bikinis, I dont think they fit here. In fact, this entire production was rather an abomination.
aeldergoth 1 year ago 2
the Don is a PEEMP.
CrystalFlames 1 year ago
What the hell!? I hate modern adaptations of epic operas... I laugh on 2:33! haha
VRock555 1 year ago 4
esto no es don giovanni, se cargan todo el ambiente... han profanado algo de lo mas sagrado que hay.,, aunque me gusta la voz de don giovanni del 0:30 al 0:34 pero por favor... leporello vestido asi.. y el commendatore... esto no se puede hacer...
putoamodetodo 1 year ago
This is almost ridiculous. Maybe not even almost. I totally agree with jaydoggy531
kuglagerfeld 1 year ago
¿¿Y el Commendatore llegó en su Lamborghini Murciélago?? ¡¡Qué hijos de puta!!
chefecito5 1 year ago
Qué cagada, hermano!! Una buena mierda...!!! y el "tempo", todo apurado, además... ni siquiera la salvaron musicalmente. Déjense de chorear!! Vayan a hacer opera de verdad!! Manga de cretinos!! Pobre Mozart... se retuerce en su fosa común!! no se merece que le hagan esto con su mejor obra!!!!!
chefecito5 1 year ago 2
What's with the snow? Or is it soap?
bassfanne45 1 year ago
Damn dawg this makes me want to see a version with Richard Gere as Don Giovanni. That would be pretty badass. And while I agree that the statue is better, I like the flushed-in-white stage and the old dude's lazy eye. That lazy eye is pretty scary itself, hehe.
pondrthis 1 year ago 2
This scene is perfectly ridiculous. Because of things like that, today I don't go to the opera. I prefer imagine the true scene in my mind, with a record.
Stop the carnage with all your farcical "modernizations"!
At that rate, why don't you update the music, too? Why in the museums, abstract "artists" don't "update" Boticelli's or Van Dyck's paintings?
You bunch of vandals!
fan2jnrc 1 year ago 3
The noble's art opera's graet slap on the bourgois audiance face, Why so much auching below. Sorry guys but you must live your age. Commandotore might be stonelike, but you are not expected to be.
SaitFaik54 1 year ago
Who is the Comendatore?
2javivi1 1 year ago
I am all for re-adapting classics- I think it is important- but I personally Hate!!! this shit! its like a chepa strip club scene from a second rate tv programme- I get what they are trying to depict but its not working
music4eponine 1 year ago
Hmm... interesting that they have Leporello stab him at the end.
v0zbox 1 year ago
peculiar interpretation.. to be honest all this post-modern experimenting with classical operatic pieces is a bit disturbing... often it makes little sense of the original work
derekNb02 1 year ago
La dirección musical es muy buena, pero la producción moderna malísima! Parece un Don Giovanni tipo James Bond con cierto toque a vaselina!
Dios mío!
guillermojedivm 1 year ago 2