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Riccardo Frizza

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From the 2009 Sferisterio Opera FestivalA Don Giovanni that looks like an Italian old-master painting,staged by the great Pier Luigi PizziWith a virile D’Arcangelo, three beautiful leading ladiesand the taut, incisive conducting of Riccardo FrizzaThis live film of Don Giovanni, staged at the 2009 Sferisterio Opera Festival, returns to the catalogue. The festival takes place in Macerata, a town that still preserves the character of a medieval city, and its main venue is the open-air Sferisterio, a neo-classical arena built in the 1820s for the ancient game of pallone col bracciale. Since its refurbishment in 1989, the 550-seat Teatro Lauro Rossi has also been used for opera. The production is by the great Pier Luigi Pizzi, who also served as the festival’s artistic director; it is a traditional staging of real pictorial beauty, like an Italian painting, to which Pizzi adds his characteristic