Some stray notes on Mozart - V: 'Don Giovanni' in London

Abstract

MOST of the operas which the Mozarts, father and son, listened to in the course of their Italian journeys of 1769-1773 have been identified. Some of them, however, have so far defeated detection, the allusions in the Mozart letters being rather vague and scanty. They were all produced at the Regio Ducal Teatro of Milan, and as there exists no reliable theatrical or operatic chronology of that town before the opening of the Scala in 1778, information could not easily be derived from independent