Ugh, just saw it (well, saw half of it, was so underwhelmed that I didn't stick around for the second half) and ugh, ugh, I did not like this interpretation at all. It turns out that when you make Giovanni just a lecher, downplay the rapey aspects of his sexual encounters, and make the women act compliant (not in a coerced way, but in an enthusiastic way, I'm looking at you, Donna Anna), that kills all the dramatic tension in the show. It turns into an opera about one horny man pursued by pathetic women who don't realize that they're just fucktoys, and removes the element of vengeance for one's own self (Anna pursues him for killing her father, not for also attempting to violate her). It also left me with a foul taste in my mouth, because Donna Anna's aria later on made her look like a rape apologist's idea of a woman, that is, someone who lies and pretends it was rape in order to get out of trouble. Crazy bitches, getting innocent men in trouble!

I got the impression that the director empathized way too much with Don Giovanni, both from his direction and that creepy director's note.

On a side note, I would love to see a production where Elvira owns her anger and chases Leporello around the stage during the Catalogue Aria, so that he has to fend off her blows while listing Giovanni's exploits. Her anger is fierce in the preceding aria ("I will cut out his heart!"), and seeing her crumple into a chair during the Catalogue rather than being pushed to greater heights of anger was annoying.