Verona, Arena Foundation: Mozart's Don Giovanni opens the 2026 Season at the Teatro Filarmonico.

Don Giovanni, the masterpiece of Mozart is From Bridge reconquest Verona, inaugurating the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season proposed by Arena Foundation to the Philharmonic Theater. The first performance is scheduled for Sunday January 18th (3.30 pm), with repeats on the following days 21, 23 is January 25th.

The show features the staging designed by Enrico Stinchelli in 2019 for the Philharmonic, with the colorful eighteenth-century-inspired costumes of Maurizio Millenotti and the visual design of Ezio Antonelli.

On the podium of the Arena teams rises Francesco Lanzillotta, leading a cast that brings together established artists and young voices: the baritone makes his debut at the Teatro Filarmonico in the title role Christian Federici, born in 1987, already winner of the international competitions of Spoleto and “Toti Dal Monte”; next to him the Leporello of the expert Paolo Bordogna; to face the role of Donna Anna will be River Guild, while in the role of Donna Elvira she will try her hand Marta Torbidoni, both sopranos with international careers and Arena voices.

The tenors alternate in the role of Don Ottavio Edgardo Rocha is Leonardo Sanchez, while Emma Fekete the young bass makes his debut at the Philharmonic in the role of Zerlina Alessandro Abis it will be Masetto and Ramaz Chikviladze lends his voice to the Commander.

Playful drama in two acts on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, “The Dissolute Punished or Don Giovanni” – as the original title of the work says – was written by Mozart in 1787 and premiered in Prague on October 29 of the same year. Blending multiple registers, from opera buffa to the supernatural, with its disturbing and irresistible charm, Don Giovanni has continued its triumphant journey before audiences around the world for well over two centuries.