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July 13, 2011

The predictability of Bieito's shows is perhaps the most legitimate basis for attack on them. The problem with his Don Giovanni is not that it relocates a candle-lit tale of 17th-century Spain in the floodlit glare of a 21st-century Spanish parking lot (par for the course in modern opera). The problem is that there are only so many times you can watch a character kick a beer can across the stage, shoot some heroin and stimulate his crotch, and remain interested.

"Welcome to the reinvention of the story book," the BBC quoted Dave Ranyard from Sony London Studios saying. "Words, pictures, stories come to life in a way never seen before."