Created in 1781 by Count Nostitz, this theatre's name was made by the triumphant creation of Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1786. Largely dominated by a German repertory, it was soon to open up to Czech music... but returned to the German language in 1869 (when the first stone of the Theatre National was laid). It then became the Royal Theatres, before reverting to National in 1920, only for the Communists to rename it the Tyl, after the author of the national anthem.