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According to data from secondary sources, Mozart's operas Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte were staged with considerable success in Zagreb during the 1830s, but the only Zagreb newspaper Agramer politische Zeitung devoted very little space to musical-scenic works performances at that time. It was not until the 1870s that most of Zagreb newspapers gave announcements and reviews on performances of Mozart's operas; Don Giovanni was staged in 1875 and in 1898 and Die Zaubeflöte in 1899. So these two Mozart's operas were the only ones that had been systematically staged in Zagreb in all three theatres (in so-called Amad. Theater, Stanković Theatre and in today's theatre building) in the German and/or the Croatian language during the 19th century. The characteristics of performances and casts are given in this paper and, on the basis of the newspaper reviews, changes in the journalists' and the audience's reactions in the reception of those works are monitored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]