At Salzburg, Don Giovanni gets no pleasure from seducing
Romeo Castellucci © SF/Anne Zeuner.
by Ben Miller
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Chi son io, tu non saprai, stage director Romeo Castellucci said during a recent interview in the lobby of the Salzburg Festivals main theater. He smiled and gestured to an interpreter, who gave the translation: You will never know who I am.
The phrase is part of the title characters entrance line in Mozarts Don Giovanni and announces the works strangeness and ambiguity, the way it shifts between comedy and tragedy. Few stage directors would seem better able to explore and honor its mysteries than Castellucci, who emerged from the world of experimental theater to produce an ongoing series of abstract and enigmatic opera productions.
At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing
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