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Italian composer (1853-1931)
- piano
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- Kingdom of Italy
- pianist, composer, music teacher
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2017-07-31 07:08:20
Anglais - Boldly rewritten, Tito condemns the war on terror
In Peter Sellars’ new production of La clemenza di Tito, whenever Sesto says “traditor” (“traitor”) in his end-of-act-one recitativo accompagnato, the supertitles read “terrorist”. This may seem like a small detail, but it’s emblematic of Sellars’ and Currentzis’s audacious reworking of Mozart’s opera. Sesto’s treason is personal, a crime against his friend and father figure Tito. Terrorism is general—the aim is to create fear among the masses. Sellars wants his Clemenza di Tito to be broadly political, and interpersonal melodrama is the first casualty. Gone are most of the recitatives, including much of the relationship-building between Vitellia and Sesto and all of Sesto’s and Tito’s climactic second-act interview. (Gone, even, is the intimate, pathetic trio “Quello di Tito èil volto”.) Instead, choruses from Mozart’s Mass in C Minor (K 427/417a) are spliced into the score to show the collective impact of the opera’s events. Tito’s generosity is greeted with the Benedictus […]
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