Check out this new
production of La Clemenza di Tito online at La Monnaie's website for a
limited time (through Nov. 30*). Kurt Streit is Tito, Veronique Gens is Vitellia
and Anna Bonitatibus is Sesto.
I've only seen the first two scenes. The set is a big bedroom/office (maybe a hotel room?) There's a big video screen over center stage that shares intriguing and/or significant closeups (often of someone who is not singing, but usually reacting to whomever is singing). Both Sesto
and Annio look and move convincingly like guys, and Tito is on stage at a desk
stage left from the start. I haven't gotten far enough in to find out how that's going to play out.
Sometimes videos from La
Monnaie appear elsewhere later. Sometimes not. So watch it now!
*Update 11/10/13 My original intelligence said Nov. 21, but I just noticed on the La Monnaie site it says the 30th. (Also, I now have a crush on Swedish mezzo Anna Grevelius as Annio, but I am not sure if I have a crush on her, or on him.)
Servillia and Annio (Review, Part 1)
Personal Drama... (Review, Part 2)
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