Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth

by Richard Will

"Don Giovanni" Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique--an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226815412
• ISBN13: 9780226815411
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"