Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' Takes Stage at Valencia's Palau de la Música

In Valencia this week, Mozart's Don Giovanni returned to the Palau de la Música in a semi-staged form that local voices have come to call the most Valencian of all operas — not because of any biographical accident, but because great art has a way of becoming native to the places that love it most. Composed in 1787 and still performed somewhere in the world nearly every night, the opera's story of seduction, defiance, and supernatural reckoning has outlasted every era that tried to contain it. The Palau de la Música, one of Spain's most storied concert halls, has chosen to present this performa