When a performance of
Don Giovanni that
started at 6.30 p.m. ends at 10:33 p.m. and the intermission has been of normal length, questions arise.
It is often said that in opera, the director cannot intervene on the time, dictated by the music.
This is not quite true when it comes to classical opera, where we can dilate that of recitatives, close to the tempo of speech.
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As in the past Michael Haneke in Paris, this is what Romeo Castellucci did in the new Mozartian production of the Salzburg Festival, taking the party to break the fluidity of the sequences to practice the freeze frame and the tableau vivant.
But this
four-hour
Don Giovanni
is above all the work of conductor Teodor Currentzis, a new chosen Mozartian chosen by Festival director Markus Hinterhäuser, and crowned by the public as the new star of Salzburg.
Unsettling experience
However, this is where the shoe pinches.
There too is the great misunderstanding.
At intermission, we overheard conversations
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