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[Rev. Rye]

Here's my favorite scene from Don Giovanni:




If you can listen to this without peeing your pants a little, you're braver than I am.  Absolute madness, and the best performance of it I've heard.

I see your 1990 Kurt Moll performance and I raise you the 1954 Furtwangler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATcM8X29zc


I understand that the staging might be a little traditional for some tastes, but feel free to thank your lucky stars it's not this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7ocNl6nXo

Of course, I can't be sure if it's really the best Don Giovanni until Michael Haneke's 2006 version with the Paris Opera gets a release, and the fact that I can't find anything more than "Finch'han dal vino" pisses me off more than the fact that, at the moment, "Code: Unknown" is his only pre-Cache film in print in Region 1.