How did the Prague success of The Marriage of Figaro lead to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni?

While The Marriage of Figaro experienced only a modest initial run in Vienna, it achieved outstanding popularity in Prague in late 1786. This success led Mozart to travel to the Bohemian capital in January 1787, where he was warmly received by local music lovers and patrons.12

Encouraged by the opera's favorable reception, the theatre’s director invited Mozart to conduct his work and subsequently commissioned him to write a new opera specifically for Prague. Mozart accepted this commission, which resulted in the creation of Don Giovanni. For this new project, Mozart chose to collaborate again with his Figaro librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who adapted an existing libretto on the subject of Don Juan to suit the composer's needs.132