La Clemenza di Tito

La Clemenza di Tito (2013)

Music

Rome, 79 AD. The emperor Titus narrowly escapes the attack his best friend Sextus has plotted against him under pressure from his beloved Vitellia. Titus is faced with the heartrending choice of following his feelings and granting his friend clemency, or following his reason and condemning him. In La Clemenza di Tito Mozart returned to opera seria just a few months before his death. He had not worked in this genre since Idomeneo. For a long time this work, quite unjustifiably, remained in the shadow of his other great masterpieces, despite the fact that much of the music he wrote for this work is among the best in his oeuvre. Having previously staged Idomeneo, Ivo van Hove, now together with Ludovic Morlot, is presenting a new interpretation that will undoubtedly do full justice to the everlasting topicality, powerful drama and musical splendour of this mixture of friendship and revenge, passion and politics.

Casts

	Kurt Streit as Tito
	Véronique Gens as Vittelia
	Anna Bonitatibus as Sesto
	Anna Grevelius as Annio
	Alex Esposito as Publio
	Simona Šaturová as Servilia
	Ludovic Morlot as Conductor

Crew