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| re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 10:42 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 10:35 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met - Chromolume 09:49 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
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| "Don Giovanni's seduction of Zerlina is the first time in the opera that we get to see Don Giovanni in full seduction-attack mode." That's how Lorenzo da Ponte's libretto is written. And Don Giovanni ultimately flops with her because at the banquet her new bridegroom Masetto is on the alert, looking out for her. Plus Giovanni's rape/seduction of Anna is off-stage, and it's not quite clear how far he got, although Anna is, of course, quite upset. Elvira's story is from a former seduction; she still loves him, but she's just a notch in his belt, and he's moved on. It's not clear if Giovanni gets to have a go of the maid to whom he sings his aria "Deh vieni alla finestra" as frankly, the opera shows Giovanni on a downward slope with women. He pretty much strikes out the entire opera, at least by his standards. As I've played/sung both Leporello and Masetto: (spoiler alert since 1787) Giovanni goes to hell, Leporello seeks another master, the Commendatore remains a statue, Ottavio decides he'll wait out Anna's trauma before getting married for at least a year, which leaves Masetto, who just got married to Zerlina, as the only male character who's presumably getting laid at the end of the opera! |
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| re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:07 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met - PlayWiz 10:35 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
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| Poor Leporello, who starts off the opera telling us how he doesn't want to be a servant anymore, and who even gets to disguise himself as his own master, ultimately comes to terms with his station in life. I do have to wonder if Ottavio will ever get to marry Anna. I've never really believed there's a real match there. As for Masetto and Zerlina, theirs is absolutely true love. Given the nasty things Masetto spouts at her in "Ho capito," she really must love him a whole lot to be able to brush it all off. But I think she knows he's really just a puppy - I think it's clear that when she challenges him in "Batti batti" she knows full well he could never bring himself to do that. |
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| re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:25 am EDT 05/28/23 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:14 am EDT 05/28/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Ivo's excellent adventure - DON GIOVANNI at the Met - Chromolume 11:07 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
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| Masetto is rather pissed off at Zerlina at the point, when right at their wedding party comes this nobleman and his servant, and the nobleman is flirting rather outrageously with the bride. Leporello knows what he's supposed to do: detain, get out of sight, and otherwise preoccupy the bridegroom while Giovanni tries to basically, score. Zerlina is flattered by Giovanni's attention, but Masetto is kind of like Jackie Gleason with his "Bang Zoom! to the Moon, Alice!", clearly adoring her while emitting empty threats. I think Ottavio cares more about Anna than she does about him, but the details of their characters are rather lacking in the text than they are for other characters in the opera. They do have some gorgeous and very difficult arias though. |
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