Word: zerlina
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MOZART: Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey, Don Giovanni; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Leporello; Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Donna Anna; Agnes Baltsa, Donna Elvira; Kathleen Battle, Zerlina; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). Salzburg Recital. Soprano Kathleen Battle, Pianist James Levine...
...other female singers give superb performances. As Donna Elvira--one of Giovanni's past conquests--Margery Hellmold '83 captures woman's confused love-hate feelings toward Giovanni with her emotional outbursts through her buoyant arias and desperate recitative interplay with the seducer himself. Junior Jeanine Bowman's Zerlina complements the other two women with her performance as an innocent country maiden, who almost falls into Giovanni's web Less emotional and more straightforward than Anna or Elvira. bowman's Zerlina is delightful with her quieter yet charming voice that reveals her character's naivete and dedication to her country bumpkin...
Sophomore Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to entertain the audience, whether he is describing his master's terrible ways or whether he is cavorting about the stage, helping his master escape from the other characters. Randolph's stage presence is superb and he becomes the show's most endearing character, as he provides most of the opera...
...created an enormously alluring, vital protagonist who pursues his appetites with cheerful disregard for law or morality. After forcing himself on a noblewoman, Donna Anna, he duels with her father, the Commendatore, and kills him. Then, while the Don busies himself mostly with trying to seduce the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Anna joins forces with her fiancé Don Ottavio and another of the Don's conquests, Donna Elvira, to hound him through a series of comic entanglements, disguises and escapes. When a statue of the slain Commendatore comes to life and challenges the Don, he defiantly invites...
...Leporello, with the list stretching down the steps of his house and out into the garden; but José Van Dam's engaging Leporello is scarcely allowed to become the buffo scalawag that Mozart and Da Ponte had in mind. Edda Moser as Donna Anna, Teresa Berganza as Zerlina, Kenneth Riegel as Don Ottavio, all throw themselves into their roles with intensity, but only the exotic Kiri Te Kanawa, as Donna Elvira, manages to shake off some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed...