Salzburg Festival 2017: La Clemenza di Tito

Synopsis

Deemed today’s most exciting Mozart conductor and highly acclaimed for his revolutionary Da-Ponte Cycle, Teodor Currentzis takes on Mozart’s final opera for his long awaited debut at the Salzburg Festival: “La clemenza di Tito”. The current Artistic Director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre is accompanied by his MusicAeterna and MusicAeterna Chamber Choir and joins forces with award winning director Peter Sellars, with whom he has established a successful long-term collaboration. Known himself as Mozart rebel for his unique contemporary stagings of Mozart’s operas, Sellars directs the opera also for the screen. “Peter Sellars’ picture language and precise direction are masterful!” (Der Spiegel)

Additional Info

• No: A04050078
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
• Orchestra: musicAeterna, musicAeterna Choir
• Artists: Russell Thomas, Golda Schultz, Marianne Crebassa, Christina Gansch, Willard White
• Production year: 2017
• Run time: 02:51:00
• Director: Stage Director: Peter Sellars
• Producers: A co-production of ORF, ORF/3sat and Unitel in collaboration with the Salzburg Festival
• Format: HDTV 16:9