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Isabel Bayrakdarian
Let’s say you’ve been stuck in the house for, oh, nearly a year. The walls are closing in, and you’re pretty sure another Zoom meeting will make your head explode. What’s a pandemic hermit to do?
One word: Mozart. Yes, you need Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to soothe and cheer your weary soul. And you’re in luck.
UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Music will present a virtual performance of “Don Giovanni,” at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. The two-act opera is free and available to the public. The link for the YouTube premiere will be available on the event page the week of the event.
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“Directing this opera during the pandemic and presenting it virtually posed many challenges, but it also offered the rare chance to assign the dual roles of Don Giovanni and Leporello to the same singer, thus alluding to the notion that the servant and his master are alter-egos, opposite sides of the same person,” she said. “This opera has a timeless quality, and it’s a great psychological thriller. Having sung the role of Zerlina in countless productions around the world, from the Salzburg Festival to the Metropolitan Opera, it’s an incredible honor for me to be able to pass on the experience and knowledge that I learned from the greatest conductors and stage directors, back to the new generation of singers and to our talented UCSB voice students.”