FESTIVAL MOZART MAXIMUM

Mozart, Lucio Silla

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Written when the composer was still very young, and shaking up the conventions of opera seria, this work kicks off the Festival Mozart Maximum at La Seine Musicale. Could it be that the teenage Wolfgang recognised in the Roman dictator Lucio Silla’s passion for Giunia, his ongoing experience of the emotional rollercoaster of love, explaining his inimitable alloy of depth and lightness, intensity and grace? The score, prefiguring Romanticism, is here in the hands of counter tenorFranco Fagioli, rightful heir to the castrati, in a spatial production signed by Rita Cosentino.