Review: Bold Virginia Opera season opener ‘Don Giovanni’ is Mostly Mozart, plus Diddy City
Page Laws
October 4, 2025
PilotOnline.com
Though innocent until proven guilty, Sean “Diddy” Combs currently reigns as America’s poster boy for drug orgies and forced seductions of young women and girls — an American Don Juan (Don Giovanni in Italian) of mythic proportions.
And if not Diddy himself, then similar seducers were surely on the mind of director and costumer Kyle Lang when he pitched his contemporary approach to Mozart’s 1787 masterwork “Don Giovanni,” this weekend at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House, and soon to begin its regular tour to Richmond. It is a daring opener to Virginia Opera’s 50th season…