This movie was made after Opera Spanga already staged this production and adaptation a couple of years earlier in the meadows of Spanga
Klara Uleman who plays Giovanna and Francis van Broekhuizen who plays her friend Leporella are also in real life best friends. They met at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in 1997 where they studied with the same vocal coach
In the stage version the singer who played Il Commendatore had a broken leg and had to act in a wheelchair. That was such a succes Corina van Eijk kept this way of portraying Il Commendatore in the movie.
The whole movie was shot in 30 days in a single studio