A statue of Euripides (480-406 B.C.), Greek philosopher and dramatist, holding a "tragic" mask.
A statue of Euripides (480-406 B.C.), Greek philosopher and dramatist, holding a "tragic" mask.
Portraiture fascinates because faces do, and faces matter to us because they are bound up with what it is to be a person.
I went to see Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera with my 7-year-old son not that long ago. It was his first opera, and he had a great time. I was struck by the fact that he found it perfectly comprehensible that Don Giovanni and his manservant Leporello could switch identities and evade their pursuers simply by exchanging their hats and cloaks
It's implausible and psychologically unrealistic to think that the Don's lovers and enemies wouldn't recognize him in the hat and cloak of his servant. Doesn't this undercut the plot? Why didn't my son think that the whole story was just silly?
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