It relayed Mozart's masterpiece Don Giovanni to the 18-strong Picturehouse chain and plans further broadcasts this year.

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Because, before a Beethoven symphony, Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' or Wagner's ''Tristan and Isolde, '' all human beings are equal.

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Mozart used trombones for this purpose in his operas The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and he included a prominent trombone solo in his Requiem.

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Don Giovanni marks Bieito's first production at the ENO.

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Madcap liasons and mischievous flirtations are based on opera scenes first created by Mozart and one of his librettists, Lorenzo Da Ponte, primarily from "Cosi Fan Tutte, " ''Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Don Giovanni.

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Keri Alkema, the only returning singer in the cast (she was an impressive Donna Elvira in the company's "Don Giovanni" in 2009) brings a burnished intensity and clean coloratura to Amaltea, Faraone's wife and an Israelite sympathizer.

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Colin Davis got his big break in 1959 when Otto Klemperer fell ill and he took his place at the Royal Festival Hall to conduct a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Joan Sutherland.

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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.

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