As previously reported, the Royal Opera House is streaming its recent Don Giovanni in full. The performance is the infamous 8 September "Sun special", which I attended in person, and marked Joyce DiDonato's role debut as Donna Elvira.
Like everything else of interest on the ghastly new website, the link is well-hidden. You can find it yourself on the page http://www.roh.org.uk/video by clicking 'Don Giovanni' in the menu on the left-hand side. Or you can go directly to any of its ten parts via the links below:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
The technical quality is good on my set up, though in full screen mode the picture is poor and the screen tends to freeze. The sound has clearly been cleaned up. This is mostly sensitively done, though a lot of dynamic contrast has been lost.
Beware there's a Parental Advisory moment at 20:40 of Part 10 (now, how many of you will ff there in the next 10 seconds.........?)
