Don Giovanni – Prague Summer Nights

The Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival features a fully-staged production of Mozart's Don Giovanni under the stage direction of legendary American baritone, Sherrill Milnes and under the music directorship of John Nardolillo.

Festival participants are from the United States, England, Germany, Korea, Canada, China, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and are from top music conservatories and universities such as the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University, the University of Southern California, the Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, the New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and schools in Germany and Austria.The opera Don Giovanni, the Estates Theatre and the long-standing Mozart tradition are among the greatest glories of Prague’s rich cultural history.

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 opera is staged in the Italian original version.

The duration is 3 hours 5 minutes with one intermission.