Pynarello

What if Mozart were alive in 2025? He’d probably be in a rock band, causing scandals and going viral on TikTok. In John Giovanni, the most notorious womanizer in opera history gets a modern-day makeover. Don becomes John: an overblown rock star who thinks he can get away with anything. Sound familiar?

Pynarello rips Mozart’s masterpiece out of the museum and turns it upside down. One moment you’ll hear the music in all its original beauty—the famous melodies that still give you goosebumps. The next, that same music storms through the hall like a rock hurricane: drums, bass guitar, screaming saxophone. The famous overture hits harder than it did back in 1787, and Deh Vieni Alla Finestra shifts from a seductive mandolin serenade to a searing guitar solo. Mozart meets the Stones—and they love it.

On stage: pop singer Dorona Alberti (Gare du Nord) as the woman seeking revenge, and The Voice winner Jim van der Zee as the would-be knight in shining armor. On the big screen above: Jiskefet legend Michiel Romeyn as the repulsive John Giovanni himself, in absurdist scenes only he could dream up. Stage and film lock into a hilarious dialogue, while Pynarello’s musical anarchists—without sheet music, without a conductor—provide the soundtrack.

The result? A dazzling one-hour show where opera, film, humor, and rock collide. Classical beauty crashes into sheer bravado. For anyone ready to laugh at men with oversized egos. For fans of Mozart and music of today. For fans of Jiskefet and opera. For you.

Warning: contains explosive rock music, dirty jokes, and Mozart like you’ve never heard him before.