La clemenza di Tito (Gluck)

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Template:Gluck operas La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 4 November 1752 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast
Tito, Roman Emperor tenor Gaetano Ottani
Vitellia, daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellio soprano Caterina Visconti
Sesto, a young patrician, friend of Tito, in love with Vitellia soprano castrato Gaetano Majorano ("Caffarelli")
Annio, a young patrician, friend of Sesto, in love with Servilia soprano castrato Emanuele Cornaggia
Servilia, sister of Sesto, in love with Annio soprano Maria Masi Giura
Publio, Praetorian prefect, commander of the Praetorian Guard soprano Teresa Venturelli ("La Carbonarina")

Recordings

  • La clemenza di Tito L'Arte del Mondo, conducted by Werner Ehrhardt (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2014)

Sources

  • Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 372.
  • Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. La clemenza di Tito. Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität
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