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The Metropolitan Opera: HD Live — Mozart: Don Giovanni (TheaterByte Opera Review)

The Metropolitan Opera has a strong revival of their 2011 Don Giovanni currently running as one of their HD Live productions.

A superb chamber wind ensemble gives terrific accounts of two minor Mozart masterpieces on this Blu-ray Audio disc from Tacet.

A reconceptualization of this classic Mozart opera that gets done in by excessive raunchiness and minimalist sets.

An interesting and mostly effective reworking of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is well cast and features some nifty visual effects.

Mozart’s comic opera receives a makeover in an airplane hangar with modern dress, plot adjustments, and uneven vocal performances.

A beautifully filmed and directed rendition of one of Mozart’s supreme romantic comedies that is abetted by a great cast of young singers

An innovative water-based setting of Mozart’s comic singspiel opera

This Don Giovanni is Dmitri Tcherniakov’s rethinking of an operatic warhorse that simply goes all wrong from the beginning.

Lucerne and maestro Abbado offer a moving and well-performed rendition of Mozart’s last work in this Blu-ray from Accentus

A well recorded and updated version of Mozart’s classic opera, this Nozze di Figaro will please most audiences if not rising to the top of the list.