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July 15, 2026 7:30PM

Name

Teatro Nuovo: Mozart's Il Don Giovanni

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Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto classics and rarities with a period-instrument orchestra and a performing style the Wall Street Journal calls “transformative.” 

Mozart’s Don Giovanni was the first opera ever to become a permanent part of the international repertory, from its premiere in 1787 to the present day. It was also the earliest work included in North America’s first season of Italian opera two hundred years ago–a production personally supervised and edited by Lorenzo da Ponte, the original author of the text. Teatro Nuovo is restoring the form of the title he and Mozart used, Il Don Giovanni, and is taking the anniversary occasion to restore as well everything we can learn about the performance style of the work’s early life. It presents the famous drama in a streamlined, brilliantly vivacious guise. Ricardo José Rivera, the baritone star of Teatro Nuovo’s last three seasons and more recently of the Metropolitan Opera’s I Puritani, returns in his first-ever portrayal of the Don; Geoffrey Loff leads the company’s celebrated original-instrument orchestra. The projected English titles come to us from Da Ponte’s son Luigi, created for the printed 1826 libretto. Expect the unexpected! 

For more details, visit TeatroNuovo.org

Pre-opera Serenade at 6pm: The Great Garcías (I).  Music by three members of the amazing family that brought Bel Canto opera to the New World: Manuel García and his daughters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot. Presented by Teatro Nuovo’s Resident Artist Program (Timothy Cheung, Director). 

Pre-opera Lecture at 6:30pm: Will Crutchfield introduces Il Don Giovanni

PHOTO CREDIT Ricardo José Rivera in Anna di Resburgo (Steven Pisano) 

Graphic from the handwriting of Lorenzo da Ponte