The Clemency of Titus by Mozart, Od (2023/2023), Režija: Helena Röhr, Dirigent Vladimir Yaskorksi, Stadttheater, Giessen, Germany

In the end, Emperor Titus faces an extreme betrayal: his best friend Sextus has attempted to assassinate him - and Titus' bride has pushed this friend into it. Titus pardons them all, because it is part of his self-image to show magnanimity: "If the world wants to accuse me of a mistake, accuse me of pity, not of severity. Pietro Metastasio already created his libretto, which idealizes enlightened absolutism 1734. It became the basis of around 50 operas. When Mozart turned to this material two years after the French Revolution, not only musical tastes but also social conditions had changed - what had once been a political lesson became a study of human and political failure.