EEEEEE thank you for linking that, I just had the best time watching that! (I usually get turned off hard by productions that suggest Donna Anna was asking for it, but they really go all in that production's concept, don't they! SPECTACULAR!) I wish SO HARD they had a full video of that, holy cow, Keenlyside and Ketelsen are amazing.
To be totally fair, the only really nsfw moment of that DVD is at the very very end after he goes down to hell (where that photo was taken) and RL opera friend may have just forgotten about that moment, he's wearing clothes the rest of the time! Though occasionally somewhat artfully, er, ragged clothes. (This seems to be a theme with Keenlyside's opera performances I've seen, actually. He's, um, got a nice enough body that I think directors Just Can't Resist showing it off.)
Let's see, things I remember about this DG. Keenlyside is kind of a psychopathic Don. Really well done, of course, but also really chilling. Ketelsen is hilarious! (Actually I found that regie Don G because I was looking for a particular clip of this one -- the scene where Leporello acts out the love song to Donna Elvira while Giovanni sings, which Ketelsen just hams up.) Joyce DiDonato is Donna Elvira and is really really good, she was probably my favorite of the women. Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabeth in that Met Don Carlo!) is Donna Anna and of course beautiful, although I think DiDonato carries the honors for this one. Ramon Vargas is Don Ottavio and his singing is of course fine (er, hes not quite as hot as, well, all four of the others, and Don Ottavio isn't that interesting, so I'm afraid I kind of ignored him a bit). So, yes, it's very well sung!
I'll say that the production was fine, but not to the level where I felt I had to buy it myself? But I also am generally not as in love with DG as I am with, well, Don Carlo or La Traviata :)
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To be totally fair, the only really nsfw moment of that DVD is at the very very end after he goes down to hell (where that photo was taken) and RL opera friend may have just forgotten about that moment, he's wearing clothes the rest of the time! Though occasionally somewhat artfully, er, ragged clothes. (This seems to be a theme with Keenlyside's opera performances I've seen, actually. He's, um, got a nice enough body that I think directors Just Can't Resist showing it off.)
Let's see, things I remember about this DG. Keenlyside is kind of a psychopathic Don. Really well done, of course, but also really chilling. Ketelsen is hilarious! (Actually I found that regie Don G because I was looking for a particular clip of this one -- the scene where Leporello acts out the love song to Donna Elvira while Giovanni sings, which Ketelsen just hams up.) Joyce DiDonato is Donna Elvira and is really really good, she was probably my favorite of the women. Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabeth in that Met Don Carlo!) is Donna Anna and of course beautiful, although I think DiDonato carries the honors for this one. Ramon Vargas is Don Ottavio and his singing is of course fine (er, hes not quite as hot as, well, all four of the others, and Don Ottavio isn't that interesting, so I'm afraid I kind of ignored him a bit). So, yes, it's very well sung!
I'll say that the production was fine, but not to the level where I felt I had to buy it myself? But I also am generally not as in love with DG as I am with, well, Don Carlo or La Traviata :)