Story of Mozart Don Giovanni Discussion

Production design – the choices of the lighting, costume designer and set design – and the choices of the stage director frame the way an opera is told.Discuss how these choices framed the story of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that we viewed in class, following these steps. First, provide an assessment of the production design and direction – did the elements work together to tell the story effectively, in your opinion?Then give two specific examples of scenes in the opera that support your opinion (i.e. Zerlina’s Act I aria, the opening Trio of Don Giovanni, Leporello and the Commendatore, etc), focusing on choices of production team and/or director that support your opinion.Finally, give one example of an element that did not support the whole and which, in your opinion could be changed.