Don Giovanni (Prague Summer Nights) - Mozart's most famous opera

ABOUT PERFORMANCE

The Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival presents a fully-staged production of Mozart's Don Giovanni under the stage direction of Joshua Major and under the music directorship of John Nardolillo.

Festival participants are from five different continents 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, New York University, Northwestern University, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, Conservatorium of Sydney.

The opera Don Giovanni, the Estates Theatre and the long-standing Mozart tradition are among the greatest glories of Prague’s rich musical 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.

CAST AND CREATIVES

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor - John Nardolillo
Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra
Chorus from the Prague Summer Nights voice program

JOHN NARDOLLILLO

John Nardolillo has appeared with more than thirty of the country’s leading orchestras, including the Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, National, Utah, Columbus, Oregon, Fort Worth, Alabama, North Carolina, Toledo, Vermont and Honolulu Symphony orchestras, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Louisville Orchestra.

Recent debuts include the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in Boston and on tour, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony. Nardolillo has also conducted concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Carnegie Hall in New York, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai.

John Nardolillo’s recent and upcoming performances include collaborations with Lang Lang, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Sarah Chang, Lynn Harrell, Denyce Graves, Christine Brewer, Angela Brown and Cynthia Lawrence, as well as Marvin Hamlisch, Pink Martini, Time for Three, Ronan Tynan, Jim Brickman, Cherish the Ladies, Wynona Judd, Mark O’Connor and Keith Lockhart.

In 1994 Nardolillo made his professional conducting debut at the Sully Festival in France, and has since made conducting appearances in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and China. He has led major American orchestras in subscription series concerts, summer and pops concerts, education concerts and tours, and for television and radio broadcasts.