歌剧世界两大“花花公子”纽约对阵

Two famous womanizers faced off in New York

他们都会满口甜言蜜语,但是也可以翻脸无情;他们的爱都让人无法抵挡,但是哪个女人也别想长久拴住他们的心;他们都是让女人腿软、让男人羡慕又忌妒的人物,但他们最相似的一点——都是歌剧舞台上让人着迷的角色。我所说的是歌剧里两个著名的花花公子——莫扎特和达·彭特的《唐乔瓦尼》

OUTLINE / Two famous—or infamous—womanizers sashayed into New York.Miraculously the crime stats of the New York Police Department did not register a rise! That's probably because these two are opera characters.Bad luck foreshadowed the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.Conductor James Levine withdrew because of recurring injuries.Mariusz Kwiecien missed the first few performances after hurting himself during the dress rehearsal.Their replacement—Fabio Luisi and Peter Mattei—did a very good job in a dark and conservative production.In another part of the city London's most notorious criminal Macheath appeared on the stage of Brooklyn Academy of Music in a Berliner Ensemble production of Die Dreigroschenoper.The director Robert Wilson's trademark'high art'presentation worked like intricate counterpoint in tandem with the low-life world portrayed by Weill and Brecht.