Titus Muzi III as Don Giovanni and Meryl Dominguez as Donna Anna
Photo: Barbara Mallon
I reviewed Livermore Valley Opera / LVOpera's production of Don Giovanni over the weekend, and liked it a lot.
This was my fourth Don Giovanni since the SF Opera production in 2022. I might give the opera a break for a while, but it certainly has been interesting. I avoided Don Giovanni for a number of years because it is too easy to present it as a parade of great arias, without enough drama. The SFO production in June, 2017 was like that; an awful set and terrible direction left the cast adrift, and that production was a "reboot" of an earlier production that I gather was even worse.
- Lisa Hirsch, SFCV
- Joshua Kosman, On a Pacific Aisle
- Charlise Tiee, Opera Tattler
Joshua Kosman takes note of the boldness of David Walton's Don Ottavio. That he had only "Il mio tesoro" surely had something to do with this. The opera is tighter when Ottavio has just one; in last year's excellent Merola Opera production, the tenor sang "Dalla sua pace," also to excellent effect. (I will note that both of these singers were better than the tenor I saw last year in Santa Fe!)
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