Word: leporello
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...production of Mozart's opera has become a perennial success. Thursday evening was no exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera, but you couldn't always hear him. And Rose Bampton's Donna Anna, a difficult role to be sure, was still a disappointment...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...