Knowledge Infinite
D.J. Enright, 16 August 1990
The Don Giovanni Book: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal
edited by Jonathan Miller.
Faber, 127 pp., £6.99, July 1990,0 571 14542 6 Show More
edited by Jonathan Miller.
Faber, 127 pp., £6.99, July 1990,
“... This compilation arose out of Jonathan Miller’s 1985 production of Don Giovanni for the English National Opera, and his introduction to the book is agreeably illuminating, not least for those who for one reason or another never go to the opera. The main characters of Don Giovanni, he notes, have a prior and conspicuous existence outside the opera, being well-established figures of myth, a fact which both helps and hinders ... ”