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In some ways, the plot felt like little more than an excuse to paint sweeping, evocative pictures with the opening of each door. But the characters’ reactions to each reveal are so intense, and so changeable, that I kind of want to crawl inside them and reconstruct their motivations like a crime scene.
In May and June of 2023, Peter Mattei will be singing the title role in Ivo van Hove’s production of Don Giovanni at the Met.
Much as it does for modern fanworks, opera’s foundation in existing canon influences its structure. Because audiences frequently come to a work already steeped in the narrative and its context, composers (and fic writers) can skip to the good stuff.
Like most kids who grew up in the ‘90s, I had a Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd idea of what opera is, and never really pursued the concept further on the assumption that I wouldn’t need to know it.