When I reach bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni over Zoom for a transatlantic conversation about Mozart and Don Giovanni, he tells me that he does not know what will happen when he takes the stage in Houston to perform the role of Mozart’s infamous antihero. 

Each time the curtain comes down in the Wortham’s Brown Theater, Pisaroni explains, he will have had a different experience on the stage, and given a different performance. Each time, the opera will have revealed new truths to him. And each time, he will have new questions. 

“The brilliant thing about Mozart,” he says, “is that Mozart doesn’t answer questions. He is asking them. That’s why you can watch Giovanni 250 years later, and still find it relevant.”