Go to hell, Don Giovanni

Arrogant, contradictory, outrageous, Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni can be found attempting to seduce a woman and then killing her father, flirting with a stranger he has already met and abandoned, hosting a wedding feast only to pursue the bride. Swearing himself to one woman one moment and serenading her serving girl the next, the Don is unbridled, uninhibited: he embodies the immediacy of desire.

Then again, he plots and schemes—he swaps his cloak with his servant, slips into rooms to avoid detection, arranges a whole feast to separate a bride from her groom. How indiscriminate, unintentional can a man whose catalogue tallies into the hundreds really be?

The Don is always turning to something, someone else—swapping his cloak, slipping through a side door, finding a new squeeze. Yet, the man who always turns away refuses one last way out—Don Giovanni will not repent.

Come and discuss an unrepentant rake going down in flames!

Please watch the opera ahead of the meeting, here or here!