Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: What a sad joke.

I stupidly bought this based on Amazon reviews and Peter Sellars fame as a director. I hated it from the start and not so much because of the updating. The leveling between Don Giovanni, who is supposed to be an aristocrat {albeit totally corrupt} and the others in the production totally distorts the story. The story is just squeezed into the director's concept into a totally squalid, depressing, Harlem regardless of the distortions involved. This is the real trash of eurotrash. I did not even notice the singing which did not seem to be outstanding. The sound was quite poor, harsh sounding. which made the voices hard to evaluate, especially the Sopranos. Avoid and buy a traditional version.