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CAST LIST (in order of appearance)
Leporello Jarius Cliet (Clarence G. Bell)
The Don, Giovanni Samuel Ferreira (Rod Hines)
Donna Anna, socialite Greer Lyle1, Melissa Joseph2 (Kyriaki Ioakeimidou, Judith Lyle)
Il Commendatore Eleftherios Chasanidis
Don Ottavio David Araujo2, Kirby Eicholtz1
(Cody Galyon, Ethan Michel)
Donna Elvira Hila Brod1, Thaïs Cabral2
(Samantha Rascle)
Zerlina Bria Harrison2, Lucy Stearns1
(Margaret McMurray, Courtney Richmond)
Masetto Rod Hines1, Rontray Miller2
(Denotes understudy)
1 Friday, April 21, 8:00pm and Sunday, April 23, 3:00pm
2 Saturday, April 22, 8:00pm
There will be one 15-minute intermission between acts.
GSU Opera Theater presents: W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni
directed by Carroll Freeman, Valerie Adams Distinguished Professor in Opera
Film noir is…a French term meaning ‘black film,’ inspired by cheap paperbacks written by hard-boiled crime authors…
…a piece, which at no time misleads you into thinking there is going to be a happy ending…
…locations that reek of the night, of shadows, of alleys, of the back doors of fancy places, and of apartment buildings with a high turnover rate…
…women, who would just as soon kill you as love you, and vice versa…
…a most American film genre, because no society could create a world so filled with doom, fear, and betrayal, unless it were essentially naïve and optimistic.
Don Giovanni takes place in the course of one disastrous, shadowy evening and ends with an unrepentant murderer and rapist plummeting to Hell. A Spartan setting serves as a frightening corner of any metropolitan landscape. Women are beautiful and dark; men are darker. As much as Don Giovanni can be defined by the definition of Film noir, GSU Opera Theater’s production seems logical. Enjoy…but don’t expect a happy ending!
Additional performances on April 21 and April 23.
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