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I don't really understand traditional male bonding very well, especially not 18th-century style. But sometimes I can't help thinking that there's something more between these two guys.
Apparently I am not the only one who has been wondering that. Here two are clips from a 2009 production directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi (remember him from that Monteverdi opera?) for the Macerata Opera Festival at the Arena Sferisterio in Italy.
Giovanni & Leporello - just good friends?
Ummmm...
Thanks to the Barihunks blog for drawing this second clip to our attention. Unfortunately I don’t think there is an official video of this production, but there are a few other clips on YouTube.
So we've speculated on homoeroticism in both Don Giovanni and Cosi. What next? The Count with the hots for Figaro?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't rule it out. and Cherubino? I'm surprised someone hasn't gone there yet.
ReplyDeleteI can totally imagine a production where the Count is after Figaro (or Cherubino).
ReplyDeleteBlondchen & Konstanze decide to ditch their tenors, and stay with Selim & Osmin. Belmonte and Pedrillo end up alone together.
ReplyDeleteThis is a DG that I would love to see--principally because of d'Arcangelo. I had fogotten about the clips which Barihunks provided and remembered how would I love to see the complete production even though Italians and Mozart have never had the happiest marriage on record--I do have to exclude the recent Nozze with Arcangelo and Damrau; a charmer, but no homoeroticism extant.
ReplyDeleteThis production looks pretty spare, but I for one don't mind that if the performance itself is good. One think I have to say for d'Arcangelo and Concetti is they seem really comfortable with one another. There are a few other clips from this on YouTube--all pretty amateur--but they reveal a lot of "comfortableness" among the cast.
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