Poetic comment; sometimes I think "growing up/getting older" is about fully grasping the things I discovered (but didn't fully understand/appreciate) during my youth, classical music/opera included

I'd have to take a guess that Corena sang Leporello, Uppman played Masetto, and Diaz portrayed the Commendatore. "Don Giovanni" is one of those operas that beg to be performed by an all-star cast.

Totally agree! Siepi is the best don Giovanni ever

There's nothing wrong with Siepi's singing, but whoever is responsible for that bit of stage business where he tries to stab the statue (at 4:26) should be shot at dawn.

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Wagnerian. I think Mozart was trying to lead to this. Definitely in his swan song Requiem.

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Georgian

“Sublime conducting,” with a tempo twice as slow as was conducted then or now?? I don’t know if it’s the conductor’s tempo or if the film has been slowed down, but it’s horrible, whichever way is the truth.

There is no splendid vocal acting here.

​@@EmilyGloeggler7984what Are you talking about idiot. This is legendary. One of the best don Giovannis EVER

@@EmilyGloeggler7984as if you sing better😂😂😂

Vladimir Gligoric ikr!!

Hopefully not by statue

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I agree with the modern clothes in the 21st century, but as to the nudity, I think it depends on the opera. For instance, I saw a version of Tannhauser where the woman playing Venus undressed completely in the scene where she tries to appease him, before banishing him. In that instance I think it fit for the scene.

lizardking02793 The problem with nudity in opera is that most sopranos are a bit to the plumb side - if not downright fat!

So what, the music is great still. and not most are fat. i've seen many thin sopranos and some of the the world's best sopranos are thin. Anna Netrebko, Renee Flemming waltraud meier, Natalie Dessay, and Angela Gheorghiu

Hmm.... Your comments have had me thinking: The problem is that it is difficult to detach the music from time. I'm not here talking about fashion which is sort of cyclic thing allowing pottery to be dated with a precision of 30-40 years. Fashion makes Lauritz Melchiors stage dress up with winged helmets and the works seem downright ludicrus. No - I'm talking about detaching Händels music from its time. You can play it on the periods instruments, but most of them were terrible by todays standard. Crumhorns f.i. cannot be kept tuned, say little and are generally a lot of trouble for meagre results - so much in fact, that by todays standard it is not possible to earn a living as a musician. A lot of the music is composed to get around the limitations of the instruments - the harpsicord and chembalo make trills because that was the only way to keep a tone ringing. It is problematic to substitute an electric guitar for a lute. Few want to reintroduce castration to provide the cast for a Händel opera - quite apart from the wastage: 1000 castrated to produce one acceptable performer. We are all products of our time and nostalgia isn't what it used to be: Any historian knowing anything of a period would want to go back in time to the renaissance and its disease and poverty ridden hell-hole.

lizardking02793 Were thin: That is the operative word. The fact is that most women get a bit on the heavy side with age. As to the quality of sopranos then we could point to Maria Callas that bantered and lost voice. The fashion with thin women and models is more marketing related. Models are thin, because that makes the costoumer recongnise the dress on the rack. But my real issue is that I consider nudety on singers an insult to the singers: Just look how Cecilia Bartoli suffers because she hasn't a great dress to show off in stage productions.

ElisabettaVS lol

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comece com trios,quartetos, sinfonias.depois a opera. opera e o topo. o topo da evoluçao musical.

Moll also sings the low D at the end.

I very much agree. The slow temp helps us to realize how terrifying this scene is.

Fortunately we do have the 1956 performance on cd, with Frick dropping down to the low D at the end of his last phrase.