# Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera

Date: 1787

## The fact

On 29 October 1787 Don Giovanni premiered in Prague. It is a punishment-opera, not a criminal code. Da Ponte is the book. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's documented role is: He wrote a dramma giocoso of a rapist dragged down. Prague's estate theatre staged; it is theatre, not a statute.

## Context

The Estates Theatre is the house. Sharing the night with that city is required. The setting of Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera is the public file around 1787-10-29. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Don Giovanni at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Giovanni-opera-by-Mozart (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Digital Mozart Edition — Don Giovanni at https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/ (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum). Official carrier: Britannica — Don Giovanni (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Giovanni-opera-by-Mozart; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Digital Mozart Edition — Don Giovanni (https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/; Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Don Giovanni (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Giovanni-opera-by-Mozart; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera on 1787-10-29. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera under 1787-10-29 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Established: a sourced public record of Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera under 1787-10-29.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later Don-Juan tourism as 1787. Mixed effects of Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Don Giovanni premieres in Prague in 1787 as a dated public punishment-opera. Naming Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1787-10-29 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: https://factrail.ai/people/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Don-Giovanni-opera-by-Mozart
- https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/moz-don-giovanni-1787