Lucio Silla

Written by a Mozart aged just sixteen for the Milan Carnival, the Salzburg composer’s third opera seria is an authentic vocal challenge. This production by the Teatro Real is directed by Ivor Bolton and Claus Guth, who sets the action in a claustrophobic revolving space, and features Kurt Streit and Patricia Petibon in the leading roles.

The Roman Republic is crumbling under the iron fist of the dictator Silla, who, obsessed with consolidating his dynastic and emotional hegemony, uses his entire political apparatus to subdue Giunia, the daughter of his long-standing enemy, unaware that she remains faithful to Cecilio, an exiled senator who has secretly returned from exile to rescue her. Conspiracies, clandestine reunions in the catacombs and threats of execution will push Silla to an unexpected moral limit.

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