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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.

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’.