Lucio Silla

Mozart’s little-known opera Lucio Silla is centered around the love Roman dictator Lucio Silla bears for his enemy’s daughter Giunia, who favours the exiled senator Cecilio as the object of her affection. After much twists and turns, the lovers are united in marriage and Silla renounces his crown. Tenor Kurt Streit is Lucio Silla, soprano Patricia Petibon and mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé play the couple of young lovers in this audacious production by Claus Guth, that manages to respect both the classical setting and the formal innovations that make the opera so interesting. Ivor Bolton conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real.