Name: La clemenza di Tito
Start: 2023-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera Antwerp

Organization

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Singer

Tenor

Jeremy Ovenden

Titus

Soprano

Anna Malesza-Kutny

Vitellia

Countertenor

Anna Goryachova

Sesto

Bass

Eugene Richards

Publio

Conductor

Alejo Pérez

Stage director

Milo Rau

Set designer

Anton Lukas

Costume designer

Ottavia Castellotti

Lighting designer

Jürgen Kolb

Video designer

Moritz von Dungern

Chorus master

Jef Smits

Dramaturge

Clara Pons

Maria Warenberg

Annio

Sarah Yang

Servilia

Giacomo Bisordi

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Others

Choeur Opéra Vlaanderen

Orchestra

Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Italian

La clemenza di Tito -  (The Clemency of Titus)

Ghent

Belgium

Opera Gent (Operagebouw)

Antwerp

Opera Antwerp

La clemenza di Tito Mozart

Public

Private

The Clemency of Titus

English

Dutch

Approved

De Mozart-opera La clemenza di Tito vertelt een politiek maar bovenal een menselijk verhaal over keizer Tito. In de regie van Milo Rau wordt de goedheid van ...

Vitellia loves Tito, the emperor of the Roman Empire. When he does not return her love, she and Tito’s confidant Sesto hatch a plan to kill him in order to seize the throne for herself. The attack fails. Tito refuses to punish his assailants and eventually grants them clemency. With this political and profoundly human story – one of his very last compositions – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created a music-theatrical masterpiece in which virtuoso arias and monumental ensembles predominate. But is Tito really all that merciful? That is the question Swiss director Milo Rau asks himself in his interpretation.

Rau places Tito in the midst of an elitist political and artistic world in which his kindheartedness is exposed as a hidden strategy of self-preservation. Just as in his theatre work, Rau also invites nonprofessional performers to take part in this opera. In both grand tableaux and intimate documentary scenes, they meet the excellent cast of soloists and the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen under the inspiring leadership of music director Alejo Pérez.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer