Sergio A. Mims: Peter Sellars' production of Mozart's "La Clemenza Di Tito" premieres at Salzburg Festival with Russell Thomas as Tito & Golda Schultz as Vitellia

Russell Thomas

(Salzburg Festival - Ruth Walz)

Golda Schultz

 (Salzburg Festival - Ruth Walz) 

 

 Golda Schultz

 (Salzburg Festival - Ruth Walz)

 

Sergio A. Mims writes:

Today Peter Sellars' new production of Mozart's opera La Clemenza Di Tito premieres at the Salzburg Festival in Austria with Russell Thomas as Tito (pictured), Golda Schultz as Vitellia (pictured), Jeanine de Bique as Annio and Willard White as Publio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  La clemenza di Tito

Opera seria in two acts, K. 621 (1791)
Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà after the libretto of the same name (1734) by Pietro Metastasio

New production
Sung in Italian with German and English surtitles
Coproduction with the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin

CREATIVE TEAM

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor
Peter Sellars, Director
George Tsypin, Sets
Robby Duiveman, Costumes
James F. Ingalls, Lighting
Antonio Cuenca Ruiz, Dramaturgy

CAST

Russell Thomas, Tito Vespasiano
Golda Schultz, Vitellia
Christina Gansch, Servilia
Marianne Crebassa, Sesto
Jeanine De Bique, Annio
Willard White, Publio

musicAeterna Choir of Perm Opera
Vitaly Polonsky, Chorus Master
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