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Opera in Mozart's Time

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Julian Budden introduces the fifth of six operas by Mozart and his contemporaries. La clemenza di Tito
Opera seria in two acts Music by Mozart (1791)
Libretto by CATERINA MAZZOLA after METASTASIO (sung in Italian)
Mozart's penultimate opera, commissioned for the coronation of the new Emperor, Leopold II was a throwback to the baroque in its form, its use of castrati and in being a celebration of a magnanimous ruler. It is set in Rome in AD 79.
CHORUS OF THE GRAND THEATRE,
GENEVA; SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RODERICK BRYDON (Swiss Radio recording)
(Salieri's 'Axur, re d'Ormus' tomorrow at 8. 40pm)

Contributors

Introduces:
Julian Budden
Conducted By:
Roderick Brydon
Titus, Emperor of Rome:
Gosta Winbergh (tenor)
Vitellia, who wants to be Empress:
Carol Vaness (soprano)
Sextus,:
Susan Quittmeyer (soprano)
a patrician:
Susan Quittmeyer (soprano)
Servilia,:
Lesley Garrett (mezzo-Soprano)
his sister:
Lesley Garrett (mezzo-Soprano)
Annius,:
Jeanne Piland (soprano)
to whom Sextus has promised Servilia:
Jeanne Piland (soprano)
Publius,:
Roderick Kennedy (bass)
Captain of the guard:
Roderick Kennedy (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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