- For Levin, opera performance should be unsettling--that is, irreducible to a singular, homogenous experience--and yet he characterizes its uptake as transporting
- For Auslander, glam rock involves hyperbole, construction, and artifice, yet its public is made up of fans that don't differ much in their habits of consumption from fans of more "authentic" musical forms
- For Cavell, tragedy is agonizing for the emotional involvement/investment it provokes, notwithstanding the fact that it is only a representation.
So here's your task: without getting too impressionistic, talk about any transport wrought by Don Giovanni. How does opera overcome its structuring and patent artifice? Can it/does it/should it make you feel the way Cavell does for Desdemona? How, exactly, does it impact you?
Please be specific. Isolate a moment from the production and see whether you can draw out the relation between the choices made in the mise-en-scène and their emotional upshot.
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