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One for sorrow: Claus Guth directs a taut, dark Clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne

By Mark Pullinger, 27 July 2017
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“Anna Stéphany... sang a terrific Sesto, mellifluous and fluidly phrased”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 26 July 2017
Programme
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito
Performers
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Robin Ticciati, Conductor
Claus Guth, Director
Christian Schmidt, Set Designer
Richard Croft, Tito
Joélle Harvey, Servilia
Alice Coote, Vitellia
Anna Stéphany, Sesto
Michèle Losier, Annio
Clive Bayley, Publio
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Glyndebourne Chorus
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.