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Article: Going to hell and back with a revised 'Don Giovanni'
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- June 25, 1996
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Benjamin Bar-Am, Michael Ajzenstadt
Jerusalem Post
06-25-1996
WHY tinker with perfection? The Israel Chamber Orchestra did its best with Amnon Wolman's Mozart's Don Giovanni Revisited, but still failed to convince that it was worth doing in the first place.
Fortunately, the same cannot be said of the performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's lovely short opera, Mozart and Salieri.
The two operas featured four excellent singers: bass Yuri Kissin as Salieri and tenor Evgeny Shpuvalov as Mozart in Mozart and Salieri; and the adorable and recently much missed soprano Gladys Mayo as Donna Elvira, and baritone Dan Ettinger as Don Giovanni, in Wolman's Don Giovanni Revisited.
In Wolman's work, Donna Elvira ...