Does Don Giovanni ever actually end? Or are we just living in a constant state of deferral with a final boss that will never be defeated? Critic Sylvia Korman joins us to delve into this question and more, including why this is your favorite philosopher’s opera, whether Donna Anna is a Horse Girl, Zerlina’s high femme camp antics, Leporello in the Manosphere, and recent productions of Don Giovanni at the Met and Berlin’s Komische Oper.
Additional topics include: tenors who @ Elon Musk, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, Kierkegaard, and the Bardo.
Full show notes, including a synopsis of Don Giovanni, playlist, and recommended reading, at Decanonized.com.
Follow Sylvia on Twitter at @cowboyverismo. Follow their alter ego, People Mad at Opera, at @operacomments. Read their reviews on Parterre.
Read friend of the pod Ben Miller’s piece on the Komische Oper’s Don Giovanni (which incorporated the 20 minutes of Mozart’s Requiem that he had written).
