If those are the qualities to direct an opera ...

After thirteen years the Metropolitan Opera brought a new production of Don Giovanni, the opera by Mozart most beloved by the Romantics and by many opera aficionados of today.Marthe Keller, an actress, “elegant, sophisticated and well traveled”, as defined by a magazine, was picked by the Met, some years ago I want to suppose, to direct this opera. I was confronted, on the bright side, with many ideas of the director, although, on the dark side, I founded those ideas mostly bad.Let me make a short list:- 'Don Giovanni' is never a murderer given that he kills the 'Commendatore' in a loyal fight, a thing generated by the old man, when he gives up his sword, and confronts the seducer knife to knife, a fight he looses because his incompetence.- 'Donna Elvira' uses a red–haired wig and red gloves, reverting to the German use of the nineteenth…