Tag archives: Don Giovanni

‘Don Giovanni’ in Tinseltown
By Steven Libowitz   |   July 22, 2025

Opera director Mo Zhou made her Music Academy of the West debut two summers ago with a reimagining of La bohème – from 1830s Paris to Brooklyn in 2011. This weekend, Zhou and the talented MAW vocal and instrumental fellows take on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with the director moving the time and place from Spain […]

UCSB’s Zoom-tastic Don Giovanni Opera-ting in the ‘New Reality’
By Steven Libowitz   |   February 26, 2021

More Mozart is headed our way this weekend as UCSB Opera Theatre and the Department of Music present an abridged two-act virtual video version of Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26. The production is helmed by Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian, the star soprano who sang the love interest role of Zerlina in multiple productions […]