Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

July 2004 - Cincinnati
a new staging on the sets originally designed by Nic Muni for Minnesota and Cincinnati Operas

"STUNNING… the production, made excellent use of the stage; people appeared and disappeared through a series of trap doors. Playing spaces were well defined and the atmosphere was appropriately dark and foreboding. There were marvelous details"

Brian Kellow for OPERA NEWS, Jul, 1, 2004

"SUPERB… Director Condemi?s staging never overdoes the slapstick and he inserts clever stage business that heightens the character?s personalities. It all moves gracefully and is a successful mesh of music and movement"

Anne Arenstein for CITYBEAT, Jul, 1, 2004

"ARRESTING… The Mozart opera, directed here by Jose Maria Condemi, was visually arresting and proceeded with the right kind of ambiguous tone (despite the comic elements, this is, after all, a tale of callous and murderous amorality) and featured a strong cast that impressed for its individual strengths and its sense of ensemble"

Wayne Gooding for OPERA CANADA, Jul, 1, 2004

"Condemi was able to interpolate his own excellent ideas into the production, emphasizing the by-play between Don Giovanni and Leporello and bringing a much-needed strength to the relationship between Don Ottavio and Donna Anna"

Charles Parsons for AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, Jul, 1, 2004