Masetto (now an impoverished immigrant artist, more reminiscent of Puccini’s poet Rodolfo than Mozart’s Masetto) and Zerlina (all girlish scruples definitely removed, along with most of her charm) encounter Don Giovanni again in the shape of a cardboard-cutout capitalist, Mr Wilmore, whose seduction of Zerlina this time is bald, transactional and unpleasant: and, worst of all, successful – which, sadly, is not an adjective that can be applied to this new opera by Tim Benjamin.

Click here to read my full review on Bachtrack.

Resources:

• Madame X website
  

  Skull sectioned, by Leonardo da Vinci