Don Giovanni (Prague Summer Nights)

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Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra
Prague Summer Nights Festival Opera Company

The Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival presents a fully staged production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the historic Estates Theatre. Sung in Italian with Czech and English surtitles, this powerful masterpiece of seduction, wit, and reckoning returns to the very theatre where it received its world premiere in 1787 under Mozart’s own direction. This 2026 production is conducted by John Nardolillo and directed by Joachim Schamberger, and features the talented young artists of Prague Summer Nights and the PSN Orchestra.

The Estates Theatre is globally unique as the one and only preserved and still functional venue where a world premiere of a Mozart opera took place with the composer himself conducting. The world premiere of Don Giovanni on 29 October 1787 was a tremendous success and from Prague the new opera set out on its journey to global acclaim and admiration.

The performances were made possible through the support of the Opera of the National Theatre who provided sets and costumes.
Produced by Classical Movements