Opera Review: Don Giovanni at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

4/5

Opera Theatre Company made their debut at the Gaiety with a curious production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Using a new translation by Roddy Doyle, director Gavin Quinn relocates the historic tale of the legendary seducer to contemporary Dublin.

It’s an unsavoury world of retro gyms and sleazy nightclubs where the denizens are “sculling pints and making babies”. A portrait à la Francis Bacon and a backdrop screen with a collage of erotic images adds to the dystopian mood.