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The Week Ahead: Dec 10-16
Dec 10, 2006Maestro Maazel is in Valencia, Spain, for the final rehearsals and premiere of his first opera production as Music Director of the Palau de les Arts. The opening night of a new production of Don Giovanni, capping the Mozart year, will be this Saturday evening, December 16, with Maestro Maazel leading a superb cast. The stage director is Jonathan Miller, who has also designed his own sets and lighting.
This production of Don Giovanni is proceeding on schedule despite a mechincal failure of the stage machinery at the Palau just over a week ago that has necessitated a change in the original staging concept. Dr. Miller, working with Maestro Maazel, has conceived an alternate performance space, moved forward from the main stage area. A more abstract concept, one that Dr. Miller has described as "more interesting" than his original one, will create a great sense of immediacy for the audience in Valenica.
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