Don Giovanni: explore with Alexandra
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Famously described by writer ETA Hoffmann as “the opera of all operas”, Don Giovanni is a work that dared to bring new darkness to a legend whose dangerous edges often came sheathed in comedy.
Alexandra Coghlan talks to author and critic Lucasta Miller and bass-baritone Gerald Finley to explore the man behind Mozart’s musical mask.
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