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Costumes, too, reflect the production’s deliberate commitment to simplicity. As a result, the design adheres to traditional symbolism—white for the bride Zerlina, black for the mourning Donna Anna, a brown vest for the dingy servant Leporello, and a tuxedo for his master...
...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...
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...
...Ohio, who possesses one of the loveliest voices in opera today. Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs or spirituals, are consistent best sellers...
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...