一个朴素的《唐乔瓦尼》

An austere Don Giovanni

导演罗伯特·卡森（Robert Carsen）显然很迷恋唐乔瓦尼,或者至少是一种严重的妒忌表现。在当今时代,唐乔瓦尼的做法没有什么错,许多男人都想要唐乔瓦尼的财富,过他风流的生活。但是如果你只看到这些,你会错过这部歌剧的许多精髓。我们的社会造就了唐乔瓦尼,又把他扔向地狱。我们需要乔瓦尼的存在——他是一个象征,我们每个人无论是否有罪,在唐乔瓦尼面前,都可以义愤填膺地数落一番他的道德败坏。

La Scala's Don Giovanni is a case study in social hypocrisy. We are the society that produced him and sent him to hell.!We are also a society that needs him—a symbol on to which we can conveniently throw our moral outrage.Televised live across Europe,this first-night performance made for a suitably opulent start to the Milan opera season,communicating the message that,while Italy's moral and financial well-being may be in the dock,its culture still deserves respect It was a lavish show, with as good a Mozart cast as you'll hear today and a conductor,Daniel Barenboim,who has lived with the score for most of his life.