25 June 2021 (Fri), 19:00 Tchaikovsky Concert Hall - Stars of the Stars ! PREMIERE ! Opera Mozart. "Lucio Silla" (opera in concert perfomance)
Schedule for Mozart. "Lucio Silla" (opera in concert perfomance) 2022
Soprano: Ekaterina Lekhina
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Orchestra: State Chamber Orchestra of Russia
Russian Premiere
Lucio Silla is an Italian opera seria in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 16. The libretto was written by Giovanni de Gamerra, revised by Pietro Metastasio.
Lucio Silla premiered on 26 December 1772 in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducale. Its UK premiere was produced by Camden Town Hall in London in 1967. Its US premiere followed in 1968 with a performance in Baltimore.
The story concerns the Roman dictator Lucio Silla (Lucius Sulla) who lusts after Giunia, the daughter of his enemy Gaius Marius. Giunia, on the other hand, loves the exiled senator Cecilio.
Among other performances, Lucio Silla was given by the Santa Fe Opera in 2005 and in Warsaw in 2011 and by The Classical Opera Company in London in 2012. In 2013 the Gran Teatre del Liceu produced the opera in Barcelona and it was performed at both the Mozartwoche Salzburg and Salzburg Festival Lucio Silla was staged at Madrid's Teatro Real in 2017 as part of the program for its bicentennial celebration. In November 2017, La Monnaie in Belgium produced and performed the opera in a contemporary setting.
Schedule for Mozart. "Lucio Silla" (opera in concert perfomance) 2022
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