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Mozart's Don Giovanni
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In 2016 we put on, what to many is the greatest opera of them all, Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Carmen Jakobi bringing together a brilliant cast in a very atmospheric, somewhat Gothic setting.
Don Giovanni
Carmen Jakobi directed, an imaginative and lively interpretation that was skilfully realised…As Giovanni finally descended to hell through the stage, bathed in smoke and red light, the spine was suitably tingled ...Oliver Gilmour's conducting...articulated the drama superbly. His choice of tempos throughout was judicious: the Champagne Aria, for instance, fizzed without foaming out of control and 'Mi tradi' maintained momentum while leaving the long-breathed Elin Pritchard room to shape Elivira's sinuous lines to languishing, obsessive effect.
Yehuda Shapiro for Opera Magazine, 01 August 16
