LUCIO SILLA

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Lucio Silla

Lucio Silla covets Giunia, the daughter of his enemy Marius. Giunia, however, loves the exiled senator Cecilio. Mozart, barely sixteen, drew inspiration from the torments of the young Roman dictator to embody the vagaries of his own adolescent moods as they shifted between the peril of loving and the pain of living. His music explores human suffering with disconcerting agility and offers luminous arias, light as air. Closer to the Beethoven of Fidelio than the great operaseria of his time, Mozart made the opera into a precursor of the Romantic aesthetic. Steeped in the tumult of creation, he wrote to his sister: “I do not know what I am writing, for I can think of nothing but my opera and I am in danger of writing down not words but a whole aria”. The Argentinian counter-tenor Franco Fagioli is joined by Olga Pudova, Paolo Fanale, Chiara Skerath and Ilse Eerens who lend their voices to this gripping work, accompanied by Insula orchestra, the young Paris choir and the Arnold Schoenberg choir at this concert at the Theater an der Wien.

COPRODUCTION PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS, INSULA ORCHESTRA