In 1788, Guardasoni returned to Leipzig with the Italiänische Opera-Virtuosen, re-establishing the pattern set during the early 1780s. That summer marked the high point of Viennese repertoire, and the season was dominated by the triumvirate of Salieri, Martín y Soler and Mozart. Having missed the 1787 season, Guardasoni found himself in an ideal position; he could offer the Leipzig public no fewer than five significant premières. He advertised the first performances of these new operas in the Leipziger Zeitungen, as shown in Table 14. Of the works performed the following winter in Prague, only Salieri’s Il talismano did not receive its Leipzig première that summer, as it was not staged in Vienna until 12 September.

Whereas in the 1783 season Bondini changed the opera every week, this year three weeks separated each première from the next, except at the start of the season. It is possible that Guardasoni had decided that these large-scale new operas from Vienna merited longer performance runs, but the other explanation is that only premières were advertised and that other operas, previously given in Leipzig, were performed in the interim. Some support for the idea that the company was scheduling longer performance runs is that the extant poster for Don Giovanni is dated two weeks after the first performance, while Axur, first performed on 20 June, ended the summer on 1 September.