Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
December 2021 | 9 (8pm), 11 (4pm) and 13 (8pm)

La clemenza di Tito, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà after Pietro Metastasio
concert version

"You, great hero, heard and loved by the heavens and the gods!" – the extraordinary choir sung at the end of Mozart's opera La clemenza di Tito sings simultaneously the glories of the Roman Emperor Tito Vespasian and those of Emperor Leopold II. The work was commissioned for the celebration of the last monarch's coronation as King of Bohemia.

The action takes place in Rome in year 79. The entangled story — centered on love, friendship and duty — grows in intensity until it reaches a state of unbearable density, which only Tito's virtue can soothe.The work premiered in Prague in 1791, a few months before the death of WA Mozart, having been presented in San Carlos Theatre in 1806. It returned in 1968 and after that date it was presented here in 1990, in a concert version directed by John Eliott Gardiner, and in 2008, staged by Joaquim Benite.

Pablo Bemsch Titus
Susana Gaspar Vitellia
Ruxandra Donose Sesto
Cecília Rodrigues Servilia
Miriam Albano Annio
José Corvelo Publio

Antonio Pirolli, Musical Direction
Choir of the National Theater of São Carlos Principal Conductor Giampaolo Vessella
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor Joana Carneiro