Mozart Premieres Don Giovanni
“The Estates Theatre, Prague, October 29, 1787. Mozart conducts the premiere from the harpsichord in the pit. Foreground shows the composer at the keyboard waving a queue at the orchestra; midground reveals the singer playing the Don dragged into a pit of fire amid stage smoke; a glittering Baroque tier of boxes hangs over a candlelit auditorium hushed in awe.”
