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Greeting Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
post performance CD signing. |
On Friday night, I had the great pleasure of attending the LA Opera.
Don Giovanni may be one of the greatest operas ever written. The story seems to have originated with a play attributed to a Spanish monk.
Don Juan, as it came to be known, would have many new settings, by certain counts over 1,720 in the centuries following its creation. Each age, including our own sees in him and his story as a reflection of its own worldview. Through Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni came a long way from the burlesque libertine of the original and will have an eternal life in the minds and imaginations of opera lovers. "Chi son io tu non sapra!"
