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Romeo Castellucci directs, and Teodor Currentzis conducts, an unusual double bill of a Bartok classic and an Orff rarity at the Salzburg Festival.

At Salzburg, Don Giovanni gets no pleasure from seducing Romeo Castellucci © SF/Anne Zeuner. by Ben Miller (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “Chi son io, tu non saprai,” stage director Romeo Castellucci said during a recent interview in the lobby of the Salzburg Festival’s main theater. He smiled and gestured to an interpreter, who gave the translation: “You will never know who I am.” The phrase is part of the title character’s entrance line in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and announces the work’s strangeness and ambiguity, the way it shifts between comedy and tragedy. Few stage directors would see...