La clemenza di Tito (Gluck)
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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 |
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| 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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