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CANCELLED: Servilia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
March 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, based on Pietro Metastasio
Conductor: TBA
Director: Rodula Gaitanou
Tito: Alek Shrader
Vitellia: Anush Hovhannisyan / Vitellia
Servilia: Emily Pogorelc
Sesto: Annika Schlicht
Annio: Ingeborg Gillebo
Publio: Barnaby Rea
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir and guests
About La clemenza di Tito:
Mozart’s beautiful last opera is set in Rome, and explores the appalling jealousies, ambitions and desperate love affairs during the reign of the emperor Tito. Rome burns, and Sesto, a young man driven by obsessive love for Vitellia the would-be empress, is accused of the crime. But Tito decides on mercy rather than the exercise of power. The opera has profound relevance to current times, and its miraculous music tells a powerful storyNike footwear | Nike