La clemenza di Tito (Gluck)

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Operas Demofoonte (1743) Ipermestra (1744) La caduta de' giganti (1746) Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (1747) La Semiramide riconosciuta (1748) Ezio (1750) La clemenza di Tito (1752) Le cinesi (1754) La danza (1755) L'innocenza giustificata (1755) Antigono (1756) Il re pastore (1756) La fausse esclave (1758) La Cythère assiégée (1759) L'île de Merlin (1758) Le diable à quatre (1759) L'arbre enchanté (1759) L'ivrogne corrigé (1760) Tetide (1760) Le cadi dupé (1761) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Il trionfo di Clelia (1760) La rencontre imprévue (1764) Il Parnaso confuso (1765) Telemaco (1765) La corona (1765, unperformed) Alceste (1767) Le feste d'Apollo (1769) Paride ed Elena (1770) Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) Armide (1777) Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Echo et Narcisse (1779) See also: Operas by Gluck

La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 4 November 1752 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast
Tito, Roman Emperor	tenor	Gaetano Ottani
Vitellia, daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellio	soprano	Caterina Visconti
Sesto, a young patrician, friend of Tito, in love with Vitellia	soprano castrato	Gaetano Majorano ("Caffarelli")
Annio, a young patrician, friend of Sesto, in love with Servilia	soprano castrato	Emanuele Cornaggia
Servilia, sister of Sesto, in love with Annio	soprano	Maria Masi Giura
Publio, Praetorian prefect, commander of the Praetorian Guard	soprano	Teresa Venturelli ("La Carbonarina")

Recordings

La clemenza di Tito L'Arte del Mondo, conducted by Werner Ehrhardt (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2014)

Sources

Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 372.
Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. La clemenza di Tito. Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität

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