Don Giovanni – Flat Pack Music at Thirsk Hall
Sarah Helsby-Hughes’ direction is inspired as we embrace La Dolce Vita of 1960’s Italy in Flat Pack Music’s ingenious and comic interpretation of one of Mozart’s most complete operas as part of the De Mowbray Music Festival in Thirsk.
Don Giovanni (Richard Walshe) has seduced over two thousand women, all catalogued by servant Leporello (Hamish Garrity), and he is looking to add another name with his attempted rape of Donna Anna (Carrie-Ann Williams) that results in him killing her father, the Commendatore (George Elson), and which her fiancé Don Ottavio (Joseph Buckmaster) swears to revenge.
Donna Elvira (Helsby-Hughes), an earlier conquest, has come in search of Don Giovanni, although he is now trying to seduce peasant girl Zerlina (Heather Buckmaster) on her wedding day to Mase...