La Clemenza di Tito – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – January 26, 2013 at 9:55 a.m. (Approximate running time: 175 minutes)
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Set & Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler
Cast: Lucy Crowe (Servilia), Barbara Frittoli (Vitellia), Elna Garana (Sesto), Kate Lindsey (Annio), Giuseppe Filianoti (Tito)
Mozart’s final Italian opera, La Clemenza di Tito, features a charismatic cast conducted by Baroque specialist Harry Bicket and led by Giuseppe Filianoti as the title character, a Roman emperor. Barbara Frittoli is the vengeful Vitellia, daughter of a deposed ruler, whose plan to assassinate Tito is complicated by her romance with the young nobleman Sesto, sung by Elna Garana. Kate Lindsey and Lucy Crowe co-star as the young lovers Annio and Servilia. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s stylized production is one of the legendary director’s most acclaimed stagings.