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<< -- 4 -- Robert Anderson IMPRESSIVELY MUSICAL
Vitellia, chosen against the odds as future empress, realises Sextus has not betrayed her
and confesses all to Titus. It may be that everyone will live happily ever after, but I would
urge most of the characters to start growing up. For the sake of Leopold II, Mozart ends in an
unambiguous C major
[watch and listen -- DVD2 chapter 23, 11:10-12:38].
The performance is impressively musical throughout, with Sylvain Cambreling in sensitive
command of the Paris forces. The staging is clinically whitewashed and spare, as if for a
psychiatrist's consulting room, and at the opposite extreme from the luxury Nero must have
relished in his Golden House. Clearly this Titus had no intention of extending clemency to
any interior designer or furniture maker. He has a throne, and a winged Victory at the end of
a passage; that is all.
Christoph Prégardien (Tito, left) with Roland Bracht (Publio) and members of the chorus, at the end of Act 2
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Copyright © 16 March 2006
Robert Anderson, London UK
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
OA 0942 D 2xDVD9 NTSC 16/9 anamorphic LPCM Stereo, dts digital surround NEW RELEASE 212' 2005 Opéra national de Paris/LGM
Susan Graham (Sesto); Hannah Esther Minutillo (Annio); Catherine Naglestad (Vitellia); Ekaterina Siurina (Servilia); Roland Bracht (Publio); Christoph Prégardien (Tito); Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris; Sylvain Cambreling, musical director; Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, stage directors; Karl-Ernst Herrmann, sets, costumes and lighting; Heinz Ilsanker, lighting; Peter Burian, chorus master
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): La Clemenza di Tito (Opera in two acts, K621, 1791, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, adapted by Caterino Mazzolà) |
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