Title: Uglification of Mozart
Product review: These performances of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, although well sung, are the worst by far on video because of Sellars's production. He evidently set out to render the operas as ugly as possible, and certainly succeeded. The sight of Don Giovanni stripping to his underwear and shooting heroin into his arm while singing the "Champagne" aria is unimaginably gross. Prospective purchasers would be well advised to pass quickly over these offerings and select the early video of Don Giovanni with Cesare Siepi. Although produced in the 50s, the conducting by Furtwängler is unmatched on video, and Siepi is the best Giovanni in living memory.
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