On the lineaments of the original scores of the opera
Don Giovanni
gently lying in the windows of the BnF, rue de Richelieu, in Paris, we discovered traces of coffee and punch.
Because it was after a drunken evening, in the company of a few friends, including Giacomo Casanova, his Freemason brother, two days before the premiere, on October 29, 1787, at the Prague theater Nostitz, that Mozart completed the overture .
Just enough time to bring the scores to the copyists, then distribute the copies to the musicians.
Portrait of Mozart.
1819. Painting.
Vienna.
© Brandstaetter Images / THE COLLECTION
Mozart and his wife Constance had left Vienna on October 1.
After three days of traveling in a sedan, they first settled in the Old Town at the hotel Aux Trois Lions Dorés (U Trí Zlatých lvu, rue Uhelný trh 1), now a popular restaurant which has kept the same sign.
As for the Théâtre Nostitz, inaugurated in 1783 and now the Théâtre des Etats, it has retained its aspect of a neoclassical candy box.
Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who had already…
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