On Sunday, a new “Don Giovanni,” the final staging of Kirill Serebrennikov’s Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, premiered at the Komische Oper in Berlin. It imagined the title character as being taken through the bardo throughout the opera, following the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and substituted movements from Mozart’s Requiem for the work’s usual finale. After the four-hour performance, VAN editors Hugh Morris and Jeffrey Arlo Brown convened for white wine in Kreuzberg to discuss the production.
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