Mozart, Lucio Silla

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lucio Silla

Kick-off of the Festival Mozart Maximum at La Seine Musicale with this youthful work that shakes up the codes of the opera seria. In the Roman dictator Lucio Silla’s passion for Giunia, wouldn’t the teenage Wolfgang have found the amorous emotions he was living then? Hence this inimitable blend of depth and lightness, intensity and grace. This score, which prefigures Romanticism, is here carried by the countertenor Franco Fagioli, worthy heir to the castrati, in a layout by Rita Cosentino.

3h with interval

Cast

Olga Pudova, Giunnia
Franco Fagioli, Cecilio
Alessandro Liberatore, Lucio Silla
Chiara Skerath, Lucio Cinna
Ilse Eerens, Celia
le jeune chœur de paris
Insula orchestra
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
Rita Cosentino, space setting