I stumbled upon this entry in today's (7/29) program guide as being presented on Maryland's Public Television station, described as follows: "1930s Hollywood meets 17th-century Spain in this retelling of Mozart's *Don Giovanni* through the eyes of his servant Leporello. (1 hr)" I expected a sort of *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* version of M's masterpiece. Actually it was mostly a condesation of the opera achieved by eliminating all scenes in which Leporello didn't appear. Even some of the arias where he did appear were cut short. Among other things, this left out my favorite seduction song, "La ci darem' la mano", Don Ottavio's two arias, Zerlina's two arias recapturing Masetto, and a lot of other good stuff. Most of the female arias that were retained were Dona Elvira's. There's an interplay between the characters in color watching themselves projected on a screen in black and white by a hand-cranked camera and if some sort of a point, or point of view, was to be advanced, I missed it totally. Of course any music from *Don Giovanni* is, IMO, worth taking time out to hear and this was no exception. The Don and the servant were both sung by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. An hour of music from *Don Giovanni* in a contrived format for which I could find no reason. Walter Meyer