Straight to Hell, But in a Good Way

Given the amazing music I've heard lately and in the most unusual places--a barge moored in the East River where Mezzo Jennifer Rivera debuted her new CD, the Old Stone House, also in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Art Song Society presented a riveting recital of British music--I wasn't surprised that one of the best Don Giovannis I have ever seen was presented at the Angel Orensanz Center, a lovingly dilapidated former Synagogue on the Lower East Side, just blocks away from where a friend's great...