La clemenza di Tito is one of W.A. Mozart's last three great works and his last serious opera. It had been many years since he had written a work in this style and it was because of a commission that he returned to it. He wrote La clemenza di Tito, numbered K 621, when he had almost finished The Magic Flute (K 620) and at a time when he was considering, because of the famous and mysterious commission, the creation of his Requiem, which would be an immortal work for others and mortal for the composer himself (K 626). The numerations themselves already show that they occupy the highest figures in a work as abundant as it is surprising in a man who died at the age of 35. Listening to La clemenza, we must therefore place ourselves in the vitally convulsive moments of great creativity that preceded his death.

Ernest Lluch

Title recovered in collaboration with TVE.