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A muddled staging of Mozart's Lucio Silla in Kassel was made worse by two sicknesses in the cast (with one role cut entirely as a result). The orchestra and singers still made beautiful music.

The Teatro Real opened its 200th anniversary season with a revival of Claus Guth's brilliant production and a great cast, led by Kurt Streit and Silvia Tro Santafé.

The fashion for reviving Mozart's teenage operas brings a vocally dazzling production of Lucio Silla to Buxton, nevertheless hampered by the work's own lack of believable drama and some fairly flat staging. 

Once upon a time an intrepid youth showing off his precocious skills as a cyclist boasted, “Look, Ma, no hands!” The 16 year-old Mozart could well have been exclaiming the same as he composed Lucio Silla in 1772.

Early Mozart opera seria triumphs in Vienna’s ‘other house’.

Félicitons Peter de Caluwe d’avoir pris le risque de mettre Lucio Silla, cet opéra écrit en 1772 par un Mozart adolescent de 16 ans à peine, au programme de cette saison de la toujours aventureuse maison bruxelloise.