Teodor Currentzis: La Clemenza di Tito
Курентзис: Милосердие Тита
Deemed today’s most exciting Mozart conductor and highly acclaimed for his revolutionary Da-Ponte Cycle, Teodor Currentzis takes on Mozart’s final opera for his long awaited debut at the Salzburg Festival: “La clemenza di Tito”. The current Artistic Currentzis is accompanied by his MusicAeterna and MusicAeterna Chamber Choir and joins forces with award winning director Peter Sellars, with whom he has established a successful long-term collaboration. Known himself as Mozart rebel for his unique contemporary stagings of Mozart’s operas, Sellars directs the opera also for the screen. “Peter Sellars’ picture language and precise direction are masterful!” (Der Spiegel)
Actors
Tito Vespasiano
Russell Thomas
Vitellia
Servilia
Christina Gansch
Sesto
Marianne Crebassa
Publio
Willard White
Annio
Jeanine De Bique
Conductor
Crew
Stage and Video Director
Peter Sellars
Set designer
Georgiy Tsypin
Costume designer
Robby Duiveman
Lighting designer
James F. Ingalls
The parable of rebellion and forgiveness is set in a developing country, with a brutal police presence but a thoughtful leader and with a chorus of citizen-refugees, displaced by a catastrophe. The story is driven by Sesto, Marianne Crebassa “in a star-making performance” (New York Times), here a disrupted terrorist, torn by the painful demands of the necessary violence needed to move the world and history forward and the horrifying, unavoidable loss of innocent lives. Sculptor, architect and installation artist George Tsypin is utilizing the magnificent ambience of the Felsenreitschule to create a powerful scene with mysteriously moving steles. Currentzis, “who hits the peak of his career to date and proves at the same time that he is the radically best Mozart conductor right now” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), translates Sellars’ intercultural vision congenially.
The young, outstanding cast is led by tenor Russell Thomas as Tito, who delivers a “brilliant performance amidst a perfect team that makes this opera without supporting roles a huge feat of the ensemble” (Der Spiegel). Christina Gansch (Servilia) and Jeanine de Bique (Annius) “fit in the ensemble with grace which is interspersed with tension” (FAZ), while Golda Schultz’s soprano displays a “silky brilliance” (Münchner Merkur) in the role of Vitellia. The choir “is once again the winner”– “Currentzis’ debut in the city of Mozart is a triumph” (Der Spiegel). The audience in the Felsenreitschule was “beside themselves with joy” (Die Zeit).
Language
Italian
Runtime
2 hours 59 minutes with one intermission
Act 1
75 min
Intermission
10 min
Act 2
94 min
2017
18+
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