La clemenza di Tito - Del più sublime soglio (Rec. & Aria)

Another excerpt from the Zurich performance of "La clemenza di Tito". Tito's aria "Del più sublime soglio", with spoken recitatives before it.

Tito announces that now, after his failure with Berenice, he chooses Servilia, Sesto's sister, to be his wife. Annio, who's in love with Servilia, is appalled but meekly accepts it and even says the emperor couldn't find himself a better wife. Tito then promises to grant Sesto great honors and gifts, Sesto asks the emperor to moderate his generosity (yes, that's what he's saying despite his smug expression %)). But Tito brushes his objections aside and says that generosity is the only benefit of being a person in power.

Tito - Jonas Kaufmann
Sesto - Vesselina Kasarova
Annio - Liliana Nikiteanu

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• Welser-Möst
• Liliana
• Nikiteanu

[udilio]

le variazioni sono proprio brutte ed i portamenti sono un orrore. i rec parlati fanno cagare!

[Arashi110]

Well, they are not Italian speakers, after all, except Eva Mei only.

[billyguns2]

Of all the tenors before the public today, Kaufmann for me has the most distinctive, memorable sound and splendid technique; it is typical of the times in which we live that he is not the superstar he deserves to be. People, what more do you want? He has a virile, masculine sound and is also pleasant on the eye.

[jhvorotin]

I am becoming a fan of Jonas. This guy is suprisingly gifted and talented

[dvdgrog]

@b1i2l336 I am happy to learn that his Werther will be at the Met in a new production, year after next. 

[b1i2l336]

@dvdgrog Yes, I am happy to see that at last the world acknowledges this greatly gifted artist; his Werther is great beyond belief!

[dvdgrog]

@billyguns2 Three years ago when you wrote this maybe he wasn't yet a superstar. Fast forward to the present. SUPER DUPER STAR! Siegmund, Werther, Cavaradossi, Maurizio......he owns these roles at the moment.

[dhyanamudra]

wunderschön!! Wie schade, dass Kaufmann heute keine Mozartopern mehr singt!

[labirintodivetro]

clownish as ever, mr Kaufmann

[TenorBarbilian]

this is a hard aria, even if isn't seems to be.....great singing mr. Kaufmann

[primohomme]

@grig035

Elettra's music is fabulous, it's basically a long mad scene!

[mjmacmtenor]

What is interesting is that recitatives where ONLY used in Italian opera. In German and French opera (comic, at least) spoken dialogue was standard - Magic Flute, Seraglio, even Carmen (in its original version).

[MisterSenseless]

and performing Italian opera as a singspiel in German speaking countries is common

[Graoutine]

You are right, they were composed by his pupil Süssmayer.