Seattle Opera’s fast-track Don revealed in stark black and white

By Stephen Pritchard, 19 March 2021

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“draining it of colour when our current world is so solidly monochrome is frankly deflating”

Reviewed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle on 19 March 2021

Mozart, Don Giovanni

Seattle Opera

Lidiya Yankovskaya, Conductor

Brenna Corner, Director

Doug Provost, Set Designer

Liesl Alice Gatcheco, Costume Designer

Connie Yun, Lighting Designer

Chris Reay, Projection designer

Jared Bybee, Don Giovanni

Michael Sumuel, Leporello

Vanessa Goikoetxea, Donna Anna

Laura Wilde, Donna Elvira

Jasmine Habersham, Zerlina

Kenneth Kellogg, The Commendatore

Andrew Stenson, Don Ottavio

Adam Lau, Masetto

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.