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Grand finale 1791: Mozart's last year brought a great creative explosion, including his two final operas, La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflote. Few works could seem less alike, but Anthony Rudel finds the connections between them.
1791 was Mozart's final year, the year that saw the creation of two of his most heavenly masterpieces, Die Zauberflote and La Clemenza di Tito. Given the remarkable depth and breadth of Mozart's last burst of glory, the question arises: how did he manage to produce two operas with the wildly divergent subjects, styles and situations of Die Zauberflote and La Clemenza di Tito?
He didn't. The truth is, beyond their obvious differences--one is a comic German singspiel, the other a sober, Italian opera seria--these two final works are of a piece.
La Clemenza di Tito is one of Mozart's three major opere serie; Lucio Silla, from his earlier years, and ...
- LA CLEMENZA DI TITO.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil May 1, 2006 700+ words
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Mozart Deutsche Grammophon 00289 4775792 (2 CDs) To mark the 250th anniversary in 2006 of the birth of Mozart, record companies...
- La clemenza di Tito.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil November 1, 2006 700+ words
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Mozart Harmonia Mundi France HMC 901923-24(2 CDs) Rene Jacobs continues his exploration of the Mozart operas with this...
- La clemenza di Tito.(Montreal)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Kaptainis, Arthur May 1, 2006 700+ words
La clemenza di Tito, Mozart's last opera, was once widely thought of as an unstageworthy exercise in flattery and outdated opera seria. Now...
- Clemenza di Tito, La
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Clemenza di Tito, La ( The Clemency of Titus ). Opera in 2 acts by Mozart; text by Mazzolà, after Metastasio's text for Caldara...
- Femmina, per un Simbolo della Clemenza; di Baccio Bandinelli; ed altra Statua...
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Christoph Willibald Gluck.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes McCLYMONDS, MARITA PETZOLDT March 1, 2001 700+ words
Christoph Willibald Gluck. La clemenza di Tito (Neapel 1752): Dramma...Christoph Willibald Gluck's La clemenza di Tilo was first performed 4 November...yet another fifteen. Gluck's La clemenza di Tito, then, represents opera...
- 'Tito' rules this house; Superb cast honors the craft in slighted Mozart...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 8, 2006 700+ words
...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" (literally, "The Clemency...ensemble to overwhelm his singers. "La Clemenza di Tito" may never strike audiences...National Opera WHAT: Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" WHERE: Kennedy Center...
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- Newspaper article from: Windy City Times Morgan, Scott C April 22, 2009 700+ words
...a new production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito last weekend, COT is in...get an airing. For instance, La Clemenza di Tito features Music of the Baroque...complicated and expensive art form." La Clemenza di Tito continues at 3 p.m. April...
