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...young peasant couple of Zerlina and Masetto, Jessica G. Peritz ’05 and Oussama Zahr ’04-’05, display just as much confidence and charisma as their older, professional counterparts. Peritz skillfully shifts her operatic tone from girlishly naïve (in one duet with Don Giovanni) to seductive and pleading, as she tries to win back Masetto’s love...

Author: By Jennifer D.M. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Simplicity Tells a Good Giovanni Story | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Don Giovanni tries to take a new conquest and seduces newlywed peasant Zerlina (Caitlin C. Vincent ’07/Jessica G. Peritz ’06) from her husband Masetto (John F. Errington ’05/Oussama Zahr...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LHO 'Don Giovanni' Keeps Opera Relevant | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...presence is riveting. Both Figaro and Leporello are servants, but there is no trace of the oaf or the buffoon in Terfel's portrayals. In both parts he can be physically threatening. In Don Giovanni he is a formidable enforcer of the Don's will, grabbing the young husband Masetto and spinning him into vertigo. With the equally tall James Morris singing the Don, the stage becomes electric, and Franco Zeffirelli's bland 1990 production a hair-raising drama of licentiousness and revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: In The Lap of the Gods | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

That scene illustrates a more fundamental problem. Don Giovanni is at least partly a drama of class distinctions. That is why, for example, the cavalier can simply walk in on the wedding of the peasant Masetto and walk off with his bride Zerlina. When Don Giovanni is converted into an East Harlem hoodlum, the character no longer fits the plot, so Sellars blithely begins changing various details of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Camping Up of Mozart Or, Yo, Don Giovanni is one bad dude | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Sophomore Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to entertain the audience, whether he is describing his master's terrible ways or whether he is cavorting about the stage, helping his master escape from the other characters. Randolph's stage presence is superb and he becomes the show's most endearing character, as he provides most of the opera...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Opera Gigolo | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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