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Telegraph, 3 May 2005 |
Rupert Christiansen |
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, London May 2005
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Triumph of ideology over emotion
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Rupert Christiansen reviews
(Birmingham Opera Company's Ulysses Comes Home and) Zurich Opera's La
clemenza di Tito |
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Zurich Opera's hugely successful series of
one-off performances at the Festival Hall continued with a fresh
interpretation of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, in which the recitatives
were delivered as spoken dialogue - the music for them was probably written
by Sussmayr, Mozart's pupil, and can therefore be considered inauthentic.
Franz Welser-Most adopted some very slow tempi, but shaped the music
eloquently and drew exquisite orchestral playing. With her light, flexible
soprano, Eva Mei made Vitellia first cousin to the Queen of the Night, in
marked contrast to the exuberant charm of Susan Graham's Sesto. Jonas
Kaufmann miraculously breathed character into the marmoreal figure of Tito,
and in the small role of Publio, a superb young bass, Günther Groissböck,
gave promise of greatness to come.
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