PARTIALLY-STAGED OPERA

Saturday, June 18, 2011 – 8 p.m.
PALACIO DE LA ÓPERA, A Coruña

Wolfgang A. Mozart
(Libretto by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, Metastasio)

ORQUESTA REAL FILHARMONÍA DE GALICIA
ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE GALICIA CHOIR (Conductor, J. Company)

Lucia Cirillo, mezzosoprano (Sesto, Titus’ friend and in love with Vitelia)
Véronique Gens, soprano (Vitelia, daughter of deposed Emperor Vitelio)
Shawn Mathey, tenor (Titus Vespasiano, Roman Emperor)
Marta Matheu, soprano (Servilia, Sesto’s sister and in love with Annio)
Pilar Vázquez, mezzosoprano (Annio, Sesto’s friend and in love with Servilia)
Maurizio Muraro, bass (Publio, praetorian prefect)

Musical direction, Fabio Biondi
Stage direction, Marco Carniti

Assistant to the musical director, Adrián Chamorro
Basso continuo (cembalo), Leonardo Morini

A coproduction with the Consorcio de Santiago, with the cooperation of the Centro Coreográfico Galego

Metastasio based this opera’s libretto on Suetonio’s work “Lives of the Twelve Caesars.”  It is a story of love, deception and revenge set in the Imperial Roman court and is a close reflection of circumstances at the time, particularly during the period of the Lower Roman Empire. In a radical twist from what generally unfolded in Imperial Rome, this opera’s libretto has a happy ending, as Titus offers clemency (thus the title of the work) and pardons the conspirators.

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