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The Bayerische Staatsoper's La clemenza di Tito is a story well told (crazy costumes and all)

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 15 October 2014
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Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 14 October 2014
Programme
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito
Performers
Bavarian State Opera
Oksana Lyniv, Conductor
Jan Bosse, Director
Stéphane Laimé, Set Designer
Victoria Behr, Costume Designer
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Servilia
Kristine Opolais, Vitellia
Serena Malfi, Annio
Angela Brower, Sesto
Daniel Behle, Tito
Tareq Nazmi, Publio
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.