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Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito | Brilliant Classics 93967

Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93967

Barcode: 5028421939674

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 22nd February 2010

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Contents

Artists

Andre Post
Claudia Patacca
Francine van der Heyden
Cecile van de Sant
Nicola Wemyss
Marc Pantus
Vocal Ensemble Cocu
Musica Ad Rhenum

Conductor

Jed Wentz

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

La clemenza di Tito, K621

Artists

Andre Post
Claudia Patacca
Francine van der Heyden
Cecile van de Sant
Nicola Wemyss
Marc Pantus
Vocal Ensemble Cocu
Musica Ad Rhenum

Conductor

Jed Wentz

About

Period-instrument recording made in 2002.

Mozart hadn’t composed in the archaic genre of opera seria for ten years when the impresario Guardasoni asked if he would write an opera to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia. The libretto was by Metastasio, and had been a huge success for him, already being set to music by Caldara, Gluck, Galuppi, Sarti, Myslivicek and Naumann. Mozart asked Caterino Mazzola to tighten up the text as there was a lengthy section in the middle of the drama that would have tried the patience of the dignitaries at the royal performance. This reduced the drama to two acts. Mozart was just putting the finishing touches to Die Zauberflöte when he commenced work on the new opera.

Although he had enjoyed a great run of successes with his comic operas, he could hardly produce such a work for this grand occasion. The subject of Titus may have appealed to him; Mozart may have seen in the Roman emperor the same Masonic ideals and qualities of forgiveness and tolerance that he had portrayed in Die Zauberflöte.

Mozart was working flat out at this time, and his health was declining rapidly. To have the opera ready in time for the Prague premiere on 6 September 1791, he asked his pupil Süssmayr to compose the recitatives. Mozart had taken just four weeks to complete the work. He would be dead in the December of that year, aged 35.

La Clemenza di Tito was politely received, but the opera’s noble characters, and the fact that it contains some of the composer’s greatest music, saw its gradual appreciation by the public. It was the first Mozart opera to be performed in the UK, in 1806, but the first US performance was not until 1952 in Tanglewood.

Cast:
- Andre Post: Tito Vespasiano
- Claudia Patacca: Vitellia
- Francine van der Heyden: Servilia
- Cecile van de Sant: Sesto
- Nicola Wemyss: Annio
- Marc Pantus: Publio

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