Yesterday evening Mikael and I went to see La Clemenza di Tito at the Estates Theatre. The opera was premiered at this very theatre in 1791 with Mozart himself conducting from the piano, [though mightn't they mean harpsichord?]. How's that for history? It was terrific, we never saw the chorus, who were squashed out of sight behind the Peter Brook like white perspective box, so it became a powerful, rather modern psycho-drama concentrating on the 6 principals. the scene changes were all at the end of the tunnel, and therefore only needed to be 2 metres square...
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