This weekend, the Seattle Opera Young Artists present Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, the tale of a notorious womanizer and the price he has to pay for his crimes. Here are five things you should know about the Bellevue production:

1. Seattle Opera Young Artists may not be famous (yet), but they’re not amateurs. Those selected to perform Don Giovanni were picked from a pool of 600 applicants, and all boast impressive resumes. Four of the current Young Artists have roles in Seattle Opera’s upcoming Magic Flute, and Emily Hindrichs, who will sing the role of Queen of the Night in that production, is a former Young Artist.

2. There’s something old…. Young Artists will perform the Vienna version of the opera from the late 1700s, which includes two arias and a duet that are rarely sung in other productions.

3. And there’s something new… Colorful 20th-century costumes by local designer Candace Frank give the 18th-century opera a modern look. And at key moments of the performance, still media images and black-and-white film footage will be projected onto a screen behind the performers.

4. Mozart’s operas changed the opera game. In the 18th century, opera had only two genres: comic (opera buffa) and tragic (opera seria). Don Giovanni contains moments of humor and of tragedy, helping creating a new genre Mozart called dramma giocoso (“joking drama”).

5. This show is budget friendly. An adult ticket costs $50 for any seat; compare that to the $100-plus Seattle Opera-goers drop for orchestra-level seats for Mozart’s Magic Flute in May.

See Don Giovanni Apr 7 and 9 at 7:30pm at the Theatre at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.