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The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden reopens with Mozart's last opera, La clemenza di Tito: Edgaras Montvidas stars as the Roman Emperor Titus, his legendary clemency sorely tested when his best friend Sextus falls for Vitellia - daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellius - and conspires against Titus.

Tito (Titus) ..... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Sesto (Sextus) ..... Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano)
Vitellia ..... Nicole Chevalier (soprano)
Annio (Annius), Sesto's friend ..... Angela Brower (mezzo-soprano)
Servilia, Sesto's sister ..... Christina Gansch (soprano)
Publio (Publius), prefect of the praetorian guard ..... Joshua Bloom (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Synopsis:
Act 1: Enraged that the emperor Titus has not chosen her as his
bride, Roman noblewoman Vitellia persuades Titus’s best
friend Sextus (who is in love with her) to assassinate the
Emperor. Sextus engulfs the Capitol of Rome in flames, but in
the confusion attempts to kill the wrong man.
Act 2: Sextus is arrested and refuses to implicate Vitellia. Titus,
however, cannot bring himself to condemn his best friend to
death, and is about to pardon Sextus when Vitellia admits her
guilt and her motive. Titus forgives her as well, and all join to
celebrate the redemptive power of his clemency.

21.20
Julius Aglinskas: Blue Dusk (´óÏó´«Ã½ Commission)

Apartment House
(Gordon MacKay and Mira Benjamin (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Kerry Yong (piano), Alan Thomas (e-guitar)
Recorded in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Theatre 30th October 2020