Mozart composed Don Giovanni especially for Prague where he personally conducted its first performance in 1787.
The National Marionette Theatre has performed Don Giovanni as a comedy accompanied by a recording of the Swedish Drottingholm Court Theatre Orchestra and Chorus since 1991. It has had many performances throughout Europe and in South Korea but not in North America.
I went to a performance at the National Marionette Theatre in Prague.
UNIMA - the International Organization of Puppeteers was set up in this Art Deco theatre in 1929.
Unfortunately I was unable to take any photos inside.
The performance was humorous with a puppet playing Mozart conducting and opera being sung and mimicked by the puppets. At the end the Puppeteers all appeared to great applause after one of them had appeared on stage that showed that the puppets were only about one third the height of a normal human.
It was great fun and much enjoyed.
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