Los Angeles Opera’s indefatigable music director, James Conlon, always has something provocative or insightful to say, both in his pre-opera lectures and in his program notes. In the case of Mozart’s ever-provocative “Don Giovanni,” he doubled down: Instead of one page in the program, he took two. And toward the center of his essay, he tipped his hand: “Could it be that simply performing…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:16PM on September 23, 2012