Gabrielle Philiponet lends Donna Anna a new fragility, that of a woman lost between fear, desire, and memory. Her demeanor, more sensual than noble, disrupts the conventions of
the role: curious about her attacker, she seems as fascinated by evil as she denounces it, even going so far as to disarm her father in an ambiguous gesture that saves Don Giovanni and makes her, despite herself, complicit in his death. This reversal gives her character a disturbing ambiguity…