The Clemency of Titus by Mozart, pen 01 lie 2016, Nuo (2016/2016), Režisierius Jonathan Miller, Dirigentas Ottavio Dantone, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

La clemenza di Tito Empress Maria Louisa, wife of Leopold II, wrote Mozart's La clemenza di Tito as a "porcheria tedesca" (German mess).have condemned. Born in Neapolitan, she was familiar with the tradition of Italian opera seria, and the statement attributed to her makes clear the extent to which Mozart deviated from it in this opera, which he wrote in the last year of his life for the coronation of Leopold II in Prague. While the abolition of the monarchy was gradually being introduced in France, Mozart and his librettist radically shortened the libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which had already been set to music around forty times, and allowed the absolutist cosmos of power to collapse into the private sphere: the focus of the intrigue of Vitellia, who felt spurned, who instigates her lover Sesto to murder the hated Roman Emperor Titus, the political gap between sovereign and subject is no longer the focus, but a deeply human drama. In the revival, Ramón Vargas sings Tito, Marina Rebeka and Anna Stéphany make their debuts as Vittelia and Sesto. Ottavio Dantone, who directed our new Vivaldi production last season, is on the podium.