The Don tries to blame Leporello for the attack ... They're sitting near the giant stone statue of the Commendatore, Giovanni's Act One murder victim — and the statue begins to speak.

Colorado pianist Katie Mahan at the Il Commendatore statue in Salzburg. Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" is full of drama, ambiguity, comedy, tragedy and even supernatural elements. Don Giovanni is a ...

Van Hove has reserved his most spectacular effect for the scene in which Don Giovanni is condemned to an eternity of agony by the ghost of the Commendatore. “It’s kind of a surprise ...

‘Don Giovanni’ a must-see ... and his servant Leporello traditionally encounter the immobile form of the Commendatore (whom Giovanni murders in the opening scene) late in the opera.

And certainly the Don Juan myth is an essential example ... The graveyard scene, where Giovanni confronts the Commendatore’s funereal statue, is amazing. Mr. Whitson, seated, wears what ...

Stage director Chuck Hudson set the action in the present day, with Don Giovanni as a well-known ... lukewarm entrances on that catwalk as the Commendatore. If you can’t be heard over the ...

Italy — Two weeks of hard work by the young singers of Opera al Mare opera workshop came to an exciting conclusion with the finale of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” when the rake faces his unhappy fate at ...

In the ads for this production, Don Giovanni’s mouth is blood red. With this organ, he charmed his victims by speaking, then drained them dry. He is able to stab a man, the Commendatore (Petros ...