Distributor: C Major Entertainment / Unitel
Length: 148 min. 06 sec.
16:9 shot in Digital Video 25P / stereo & 5.1 surround sound
© 2006, a production of Unitel, and BFMI in co-production with
Classica, in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival
Dramma per musica in three acts K. 135 (1772)
Libretto: Giovanni de Gamerra
Following the success of his "Mitridate," Mozart received another comission to write an opera for Milan, a dramma per musica in three acts. He began working on "Lucio Silla" in late 1772, while on his third trip to Italy. Although the rehearsals were fraught with problems caused by recalcitrant singers, the work was nervertheless given 26 performances to full houses. Yet despite this success, "Lucio Silla" was the last opera Mozart wrote for Italy.
"I see it as a kind of political thriller, the story of a plot against an inhuman regime [...] ‘Lucio Silla’ is, in my opinion, one of the few truly political pieces by Mozart." Director Jürgen Flimm conceived his production accordingly, delivering a taut and often breathtakingly raw interpretation of the story of the dictator Lucio Silla. Although the action unfolds in ancient Rome, Flimm has trans-posed it to Mozart’s day, when absolutistic monarchs still held sway over Europe.
| Conductor Stage director Video director |
Tomáš Netopil Jürgen Flimm Hannes Rossacher |
Lucio Silla Giunia Cecilio Lucio Cinna Celia Aufidio |
Roberto Saccà Annick Massis Monica Bacelli Veronica Cangemi Julia Kleiter Stefano Ferrari |
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice
Recording dates: 23.07.| 27.07.| 30.07.2006
Venue: Felsenreitschule
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