"You can call me Mr. April," says Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien. He's right on two counts. His last name — pronounced kfee-EH-chen — means April in Polish, he says. And also, because of his dashing ...

Toward the end of Act 1 of Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the licentious title character describes the party -- orgy might be a better word for it -- that he's about to throw at his villa as part of an ...

Marty Sohl/ Metropolitan Opera Mojca Erdmann as Zerlina and Mariusz Kwiecien as the title character in the Met’s new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The digital revolution has made many ...

IT’S EASY TO SEE why Mariusz Kwiecien has been proclaimed one of the best Don Giovannis of his generation. Striding through the War Memorial Opera House, the Polish baritone exudes the kind of animal ...

Over the past year, Seattle Opera has done a number of high-concept productions that have been justly admired. Mozart's "Don Giovanni," which opened this weekend at McCaw Hall, is the newest, and from ...

The combination of Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage and gifted baritone Mariusz Kwiecien sounded like a potent one -- the former making his Metropolitan Opera directing debut with a ...

On Nov. 16th, without even having to take the Campus-to-Campus bus to New York City, Ithaca opera fans will have the final opportunity to view a live encore streaming of the newest production of the ...

“Don Giovanni” has been a shining talisman for Lyric Opera of Chicago ever since it presented Mozart’s masterpiece in two calling-card performances in February 1954. So successful was the maiden ...

(at left, during an Oct. 3 rehearsal) was to sing the title role in the Metropolitan Opera’s anticipated new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” on Thursday, Oct. 13, but was forced to withdraw from ...

Don Giovanni, “el chico malo” por excelencia está de vuelta en los escenarios de Lyric Opera, haciendo de las suyas y poniendo en jaque a Doña Elvira. Complejo pero facilito. Licencioso. Disoluto.