La Clemenza di Tito, K. 621

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Librettist/Text Author: Metastasio, Pietro

Conductor: Ticciati, Robin

Orchestra: Age of Enlightenment Orchestra

Chorus: Glyndebourne Chorus

Chorus Master: Angus, David

Annio: Losier, Michele

Publio: Bayley, Clive

Servilia: Harvey, Joelle

Sesto: Stephany, Anna

Tito: Croft, Richard

Vitellia: Coote, Alice

Set Designer: Schmidt, Christian

Costume Designer: Schmidt, Christian

Lighting Designer: Winter, Olaf

Stage Director: Guth, Claus

Television Producer: Bruell, George

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 2017

Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House

Playing Time: 02:18:25

Catalogue Number: OA1255D

UPC: 809478012559

Synopsis

La Clemenza di Tito, K. 621

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Mozart's final opera returns to Glyndebourne after an absence of nearly 20 years in a stark, compelling and very well acted' production directed by Claus Guth. Richard Croft sings the title role 'with exemplary stylistic poise and tonal sweetness', and Anna Stephany is a Sesto 'touchingly full of angst and remorse... with terrific elan and immaculate technical control' in the arias (The Telegraph) - her "Parto, Parto" 'simply breathtaking' (The Guardian). Guth's vision sets the 1st-century Roman story in a two-storey office suite bureaucracy 'exquisitely lit by Olaf Winter', aptly framing the scheming of Vitellia, sung by Alice Coote 'in terrific form'. The OAE under Robin Ticciati 'brings out the sheer beauty' of Mozart's score (Express).