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DEREK GIMPEL Opera Director
W.A.Mozart
It seems hardly necessary to talk about Don Giovanni, this character with past life captured in dramas by Tirso de Molina, Molière and an afterlife in plays from Grabbe, Horvath, Frisch or Anouilh to the most present day dramatists. This relatively late developed archetype plays a huge role -a trivial one- in everybody’s imagination and conception of the human psyche.