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DESCRIPTION:Jul 11\, 2026\n“If we have enough actors to give Don Giovanni
 \, let us give it soon\,” the impresario and star divo Manuel Garcia cri
 ed in 1826. “It’s the best opera in the world.” Ten years before\, G
 arcia had been Rossini’s first Figaro in The Barber of Seville. Now\, he
  was barnstorming in New York with his family ensemble. It was Mozart’s 
 librettist Lorenzo da Ponte\, re-established in the New World\, who put th
 e flea in Garcia’s ear about Don Giovanni. Alas\, the Garcia gang lacked
  a tenor up to the part of the opera’s mellifluous Arrow Collar-man Don 
 Ottavio. Thus\, it fell to Da Ponte himself\, his friends\, and students w
 ho were studying Italian to pull a GoFundMe to hire such a singer\, which 
 they did\, and the show went on\, triumphant. Garcia père portrayed the u
 nrepentant antihero and rake\, lording it over his son Manuel as Leporello
 \, the Don’s long-suffering manservant\; Manuel’s sister Maria glitter
 ed as the peasant lass Zerlina. (Some family! Manuel went on to write Trai
 té complet de l’art du chant\, the Bible of classical bel canto techniq
 ue. Maria skyrocketed to fame back in Europe under her married name Maria 
 Malibran\, before she fell off a horse at age 28 and tragically died.) Lea
 ve it to the tireless musicologist-conductor Will Crutchfield and his acad
 emy Teatro Nuovo to ferret out the textual and stylistic nuances of Don Gi
 ovanni as presented at the lost Park Theatre at 23 Park Row (designed by t
 he French-born city engineer Marc Isambard Brunel after fleeing the Terror
  at home). Ricardo José Rivera and Kevin Spooner sing a master and servan
 t who share absolutely everything\, but not as equals. In signature Teatro
  Nuovo fashion\, the performance is led from the keyboard\, with Geoffrey 
 Loff serving as maestro al cembalo e direttore (the role of conductor as w
 e know it postdates Mozart’s time). To Teatro Nuovo’s ever-expanding f
 an base\, the revelations regarding stage-to-pit coordination are\, well\,
  revelatory.
LOCATION:Alexander Kasser Theater\, 1 Normal Ave\, Montclair\, NJ 07043
SUMMARY:Il Don Giovanni\, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/il-don-giovanni-by-wo
 lfgang-amadeus-mozart
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