WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms
Mesmeric production of Mozart’s morality tale
DAVID NICHOLSON believes this Don Giovanni, with fine singing and acting, deserves the largest audiences that can safely enter the theatre

Don Giovanni
Welsh National Opera, Millennium Centre, Cardiff
THE reopening of theatres in Wales has been eagerly awaited and Welsh National Opera rewarded the audience with a superbly crafted production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
As is often the case with Mozart’s operas he gives the women singers the best arias and strong roles in this morality tale.
The opera itself already holds the basic building blocks of great theatre in its beautiful music, sublime arias, violent death, sex, retribution and comedic moments.
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