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ACT 1.
In the garden. At night.
Don Giovanni’s servant Leporello is waiting for his master in the garden in front of the house of Donna Anna.
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“Prague received a new Mozart’s opera with indescribable excitement”, writes the poet Lorenzo da Ponte in his memoirs.
Just one thing was played, sung or whistled in Prague –Figaro.
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Since we want to come as close as possible to the period reconstruction, we have used sources describing the manner of staging of operas in the second half of the 18th century.
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When one starts to work on the original stage sets of Don Giovanni, one discovers an intriguing clue: An old black and white photograph of ..
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Josef Ignác Platzer was born in 1751 in a large family of the Prague sculptor Ignác František Platzer.