Pacific Opera Project gives ‘Don Giovanni’ a Dick Tracy-flavored staging

Seeking out the location of Pacific Opera Project’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” amid the graffiti-covered landscape of L.A.’s Downtown Arts District, made it clear this was not going to be your traditional Music Center opera-going experience.
It brought to mind Mozart’s decision to stage his final opera, “The Magic Flute,” at the Theater auf der Wieden in a working-class suburb of Vienna. It wasn’t fancy or glittery.
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