A taciturn Glaswegian and an unlikely knight of the realm, David McVicar has directed several of Opera Australia’s most admired productions – The Marriage of Figaro and Faust being two of them. Currently the company is reviving McVicar’s production of Don Giovanni (until 27 February). First performed in 2014 with designs by Robert Jones, it is unlikely that these performances will eclipse memories of the 1991 production conceived by Göran Järvefelt, designed by Carl Friedrich Oberle.
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