La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an opera of intense passions, woven between love, betrayal, and forgiveness. David McVicar's production at the Aix-en-Provence Festival stands out for its visual strength and a profound psychological portrait of the characters. At the helm, maestro Jordi Savall brings a reading of exceptional elegance and poetic depth. With transparent, incisive, and colorful direction, Savall reveals all of Mozart's dramatic modernity and reactivates the moral energy that runs through this work. Composed in just six weeks for the coronation of Leopold II in Prague in 1791, La clemenza di Tito presents a solitary emperor, wounded by the betrayal of those around him, but capable of responding with a clemency that makes him a symbol of a superior political ethic. The contrast with the manipulative darkness of Vitellia and with Sesto's torment, divided between loyalty and desire, creates a drama of exceptional intensity. The musical architecture accentuates this depth: Tito's noble arias oppose Sesto's inner agitation—such as the virtuosic