| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Schrott thrills in a mixed Don Giovanni |
 It's the most spectacular entrance in opera: the giant stone statue bursts in to join Don Giovanni at the dinner table; a pair of sweeping downward octave swoops in D minor fills the audience (and the hapless Leporello) with terror at the rake's imminent descent into hell.
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| 25-Oct-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Don Giovanni sung by a superlative cast at Sydney Opera House |
 The older I get, the more convinced I become that the heart of Mozart’s genius is to be found in his operas. This is no truer than in Don Giovanni, especially when performed by such a talented cast as it was last night in Sydney Opera House, three hours of the most sublime music. I have always believed that great music does not need any gimmicks and should be able to stand on its own. Maybe that was why last night’s production was so refreshing. There was not one scene change in the whole production.Read full review... | |
| 6-Aug-2011 Lincoln Center: Rose Theater | An enduring Don Giovanni |
 Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte billed Don Giovanni a “dramma giocoso,” literally a “jocular drama,” and, unsurprisingly, finding the balance between comedy and drama is the key to any good production. As part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Rose Theater, Iván Fischer’s production held to the traditional precepts of the opera except for an ensemble of sixteen actors from the Budapest Acting Academy who served as both chorus and set.Read full review... | |
| 6-Nov-2010 The London Coliseum | Mozart's Don Giovanni at English National Opera |
 Mozart's Don Giovanni is an opera that is most difficult to classify. On the one hand, it has many of the trappings of a traditional opera buffa: a fast-paced farce with people falling in and out of bed, master and servant switching clothes, a buffoon-like manservant sung in the bass register and so on. But Mozart was rarely a conventional composer: he throws in some high drama, some moments of heart-lifting (if not entirely sincere) romance and some philosophical musing on the nature of evil. The music and mood switch constantly between hilarity and utter seriousness.
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