The 20th edition of the Rovereto International Mozart Festival opens today with a double event.

At 4 p.m., at the Caritro Foundation in Rovereto, there will be a conference on "The figure of Don Giovanni. Art, cinema and psychoanalysis", where some outstanding speakers will be investigating a character who has been a part of Western culture for hundreds of years. Quirino Principe (musicologist, German scholar and dramatist, as well as being in charge of the Italian edition of J.R.R.Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings) will discuss the evolution of the Don Giovanni legend over the centuries. Francesco Casetti, lecturer in Film Studies at the Università Cattolica in Milan, will examine the character in the context of the history of the cinema. Anna Ferruta, a psychoanalyst who is an expert in the study of the interface between psychoanalysis and its cultural and social background, will discuss how art can represent the opposite extremes of human nature.
The last speaker will be Professor Antonietta Sammartano, a member of UNIMA, the International Puppet Association, who will provide an introduction to the evening’s performance.

Also present at the conference will be Margherita Cogo, the provincial councillor for culture.

A 9 p.m. in the Rovereto Philharmonic Hall, the National Puppet Theatre of Prague will give a performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, in a production which has already been enjoyed by over 400,000 spectators throughout Europe. It is the continuation of a tradition – that of puppet theatre – which was born in the eighteenth century and is still considered today in its country of origin on the same level as opera and ballet.
N.B.: please book as early as possible. As of 10 a.m. on 28th September, the Philharmonic Hall is almost fully booked.

Ticket prices: full price 16 €, reduced price 12 €, students 5 €.

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