14 Mar 2011

La Clemenza di Tito

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/14/la-clemenza-di-tito-review

By George Hall [Guardian, 14 March 2011]

Mozart's final opera was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791. This has helped condemn it as cold, rather than the living drama one expects of its composer. Yet a sympathetic staging can silence doubts.