La Clemenza di Tito: Paris Opera

About the Event

Tomas Netopil conducts Mozart's austere and flamboyant masterpiece, 'La Clemenza di Tito', in Willy Decker's refined staging, at the Palais Garnier.

Mozart's last opera, along with Die Zauberflöte and the Requiem, is his testament, the testament of an aesthete but also that of a humanist. Here, pity and passion are subjected to the imperious laws of beauty: is there any virtue more admirable than mercy, the knowledge and acceptance of the fault of another and its forgiveness?

The very title of the work is a declaration of Mozart's final acceptance of his own destiny (he was to die at the age of thirty‐four) and of his pardon offered to all.

Performed in Italian

Tomas Netopil: Conductor
Willy Decker: Stage director
John Macfarlane: Sets and costumes
Hans Toelstede: Lighting
Alessandro Di Stefano: Chorus master

Saimir Pirgu: Tito Vespasiano
Tamar Iveri: Vitellia
Maria Virginia Savastano: Servilia
Stéphanie D'Oustrac: Sesto
Hannah Esther Minutillo: Annio
Balint Szabo: Publio

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus