Toronto Opera Repertoire
Scenes from our February 20, 2004 production of Don Giovanni
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Though she escaped Giovannis clutches, Zerlina (Tonia Cianciulli) still has some splainin to do to an angry and hurt Masetto (Mel Nicosia).
And it works. Masetto finds it impossible to stay angry with her (especially when she tickles), and forgives his young bride her indiscretions.
Don Giovanni, meanwhile, has continued on the seduction circuit, forcing Leporello to change hats and capes with him so he can pose as a peasant and win Elviras maid. It all gets discovered in this scene, when (from left to right) Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, Donna Elvira, Masetto and Zerlina confront the cringing Leporello with his misdeeds.
Later that night, master and servant meet in a graveyard containing the sepulchre of the Commandatore, the man Don Giovanni murdered. As a joke, he forces Leporello to invite the statue to dinner. The statue accepts.
Don Giovanni (Vladimir Radian) is feasting in his palace when Donna Elvira (Niki McNeil) arrives to implore him one last time to mend his ways. He refuses. When she leaves, her screams announce the arrival of the Commendatores statue, who also urges the Don to repent. Nope, says Giovanni. Amid the wailing of the damned, the statue drags him down to hell...
Which brings on all the other principals, eager to tell us their plans, and eager to moralize. (Left to right: William Parker as Don Ottavio, Karen Fairbairn as Donna Anna, Mel Nicosia as Masetto, Tonia Cianciulli as Zerlina, Niki McNeil as Donna Elvira, and Gerald Hannon as Leporello.)
Bad boys go to hell, they tell us. Hey, we knew that.
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