The Bronz Opera Company to perform 'Don Giovanni' at Hofstra

The Bronx Opera Company visits Long Island with its production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Friday, May 20, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, May 21, at 2 p.m., at Hofstra’s John Cranford Adams Playhouse. The fully-staged opera is performed in English, accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra.

Directed by Nicole Lee Aiossa, with artistic direction by Michael Spierman, the company’s founder, the production tells the classic story of a remorseless nobleman and his supernatural comeuppance.

Skillfully combining the comic and tragic elements that are present in every interesting life, Mozart’s brilliant score to da Ponte’s libretto recounts the adventures of a free-spirited, amorous and uncaring nobleman as reflected in the lives of the people he impacted, from the loyal, often cowering servant and companion with a conscience to the violated woman on an opera-long quest to identify and, with assistance from her fiancé, punish the murderer of her father.

This production offers a great opportunity to introduce kids to the opera, in this impeccably staged, accessible performance.

Tickets are $30, $25 seniors, $10 students; available at (516) 463-6644. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult with a full price ticket.

Hofstra University’s John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus, Hempstead.