Saturday, 10/12/2024
at 7:00 PM


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Music direction: Marcus Merkel
Stage direction: Markus Dietze
Stage design: Dorit Lievenbrück
Costumes: Bernhard Hülfenhaus

Tito Vespasiano - Tobias Haaks
Vitellia - Mirelle Hagen
Servilia - Hana Lee
Sesto - Danielle Rohr
Annio - Haruna Yamazaki
Publio - Jongmin Lim

Opera chorus & supernumeraries of the Koblenz Theater
Tito has usurped the throne of the Roman Emperor, which greatly enrages his daughter Vitellia. When Tito decides to marry Servilia, the sister of Sesto, Vitellia swears revenge, as she had hoped to regain the throne by marrying Tito. Out of love for Vitellia, Sesto agrees to carry out her plan to murder Tito: he must die. An unstoppable chain of events is set in motion. Meanwhile, Servilia has confessed her love for Annio to Tito. Tito releases her and agrees to marry Vitellia. Unaware of this, Sesto sets fire to the Capitol. Tito survives the assassination attempt, Sesto is arrested, takes all the blame out of love for Vitellia, and is sentenced to death. Shortly before his execution, Vitellia confesses that she was the mastermind of the conspiracy, and Tito generously forgives them both.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worked on this opera in his final year, 1791, almost simultaneously with "The Magic Flute," leaving the composition of the recitatives to a student due to time constraints. Based on the historical Emperor Titus, this opera presents an almost unsolvable conflict between the pursuit of power and the pursuit of personal interests. Ultimately, the question arises as to whether there can be a "good ruler," whether there can be "good power." The dimension of this timeless theme finds its musical counterpart for a modern audience in Manfred Trojahn's new composition of recitatives: their significance is enhanced by the fact that they are accompanied not only by the harpsichord, as in their original version, but by the full orchestra in a dramatic musical language.

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