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Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
One of the most celebrated set designs in operatic history: Carl Friedrich Schinkel prepares the way for the arrival of the Queen of the Night: Berlin, 1816 I Giovanni De Gamerra, playwright and librettist,wrote in his 1790 Osservazioni sullo spettacolo: Theatrical spectacle, established on the basis of wise laws and of careful reform, can be regarded as a means always available to the sovereign power to inculcate in his subjects the most useful and important beliefs. … Has our century not seen an emperor at a performance of La clemenza di Tito listening to the voices of humanity and forgiveness?[1] These words do not actually refer to Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, whose music would be composed the following year, but to an earlier setting of Pietro Metastasio’s text. The Metastasian tradition of court performance, old-fashioned but not […]
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