Event

Opera Film: LA CLEMENZA DI TITO - Opernhaus Zürich

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio, adapted by Caterino Mazzolà

Opera in two acts
Sung in Italian

Opernhaus Zürich
Running Time: 2 hours 4 minutes

CREATIVE TEAM

Conductor - Frans Welser-Möst
Staging - Jonathan Miller
Set and Costumes - Isabella Bywater
Lights - Hans-Rudolf Kunz

CAST

Titus Vespasianus - Jonas Kaufmann
Vitellia - Eva Mei
Sesto - Vesselina Kasarova
Servilia - Malin Hartelius
Annio - Liliana Nikiteanu
Pubblio - Günther Groissböck

PRESENTATION

La Clemenza di Tito was composed in the summer of 1791, a few months before Mozarts death, as a commission for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in Prague he supposedly composed the opera in just 18 days, having anyway achieved the writing of several top numbers according to opera star Jonas Kaufmann, always balancing vocal challenges with enough musical simplicity.

Regarded by many as Mozarts opera seria masterpiece, the production of Jonathan Miller brings the Bohemian opera to a present-day audience, while conductor Welser-Möst strives to reveal the humour inherent to Mozarts music.