Last night was my opera night with Grandpa - each of us gets one per season. This year, mine was Don Giovanni, the Mozart classic. It's the Italian Don Juan story: pretty boy wreaks havoc on every woman who has the misfortune to cross his path, until he makes the terrible mistake of killing Il Commendatore, the father of one of his victims. Il Commendatore returns to seek vengeance on Don Giovanni, and things do not end well.
Sarah Bryan Miller, the St. Louis Post Dispatch's classical music critic, wrote a review of the performance, the gist of which is that the music and singing is good, but the costumes and sets need some work. I'd have to agree with most of what she said: music was beautiful, singing was fantastic. The sets were plain, but I didn't mind that a bit. The costumes were a hot mess; they were all over the place, and totally incongruous with each other. But other than that, I thought it was great!
There are some clips available to watch on the OTSL website, if you want to see what you missed!
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