La clemenza di Tito

opera by Mozart

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La clemenza di Tito is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, condensed and supplemented by Caterino Mazzolà. Commissioned for Emperor Leopold II's coronation festivities in Prague in 1791, the opera was composed under pressure, with Mozart likely taking his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr to Prague to assist with the recitatives. The opera's restrained style and shorter arias reflect Mozart's response to neoclassical ideals and Leopold II's known preferences. Despite a lukewarm reception from the court, La clemenza di Tito was quickly embraced by Prague audiences and has since become one of Mozart's admired works.1

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…some of the Prague opera, La clemenza di Tito (“The Clemency of Titus”), before he left for the Bohemian capital near the end of August. Pressure of work, however, was such that he took with him to Prague, along with Constanze, his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who almost certainly composed…
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…some of the Prague opera, La clemenza di Tito (“The Clemency of Titus”), before he left for the Bohemian capital near the end of August. Pressure of work, however, was such that he took with him to Prague, along with Constanze, his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who almost certainly composed…
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