Miller and Kaufmann and Tito
Il Teatro Buce featured a weekend screening of Mozart's Clemenza di Tito, the Jonathan Miller production from Zurich in 2005. Three things:
- Jonathan Miller can be irritating, over the top, but he's always trying something. A Mozart staging that looks like a cross between Tea with Mussolini and a lesbian wedding--actually, not nearly as crazy as it might sound.
- Jonas Kaufmann is a great actor, in the sense that his Tito isn't remotely like his Werther or his Don Juan.
- For once in his life, Mozart seems to have faxed it in. But give him a break, he did it in twelve days to pay the maternity bills. And he was thinking about Die Zauberflöte, And the Requiem. Oh, and dying.
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I've yet to see Jonas Kaufmann. I hope he shows up on my TV screen soon.
Just wanted to say that Mozart faxing it in still, in my opinion, created a great little opera. Dumb plot...but that's true of Figaro. Love the difficult soprano aria (can't remember the name of it).
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