La clemenza di Tito: Deh, prendi un dolce amplesso (Salzburg 2003)

A lovely duettino from Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito': two friends, Annio and Sesto, confirm their loyalty to each other. There are not so many mezzo-mezzo duets around, so I decided to upload this one.

Annio - Elīna Garanča
Sesto - Vesselina Kasarova

Salzburg Festival, 2003, conducted by Nicholaus Harnoncourt. The whole performance is available on DVD.

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Music

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• La
• clemenza
• di
• Tito
• Mozart
• Harnouncourt
• Elīna
• Garanča
• Vesselina
• Kasarova
• Elina
• Garanca
• Annio
• Sesto

[Liesa20]

Thank you very much for uploading this scene! I especially like Elina Garanca. Could you maybe also upload her duets with Barbara Bonney? I wonder, if I should buy the DVD.

[Arashi110]

Believe me, you really should. :) There isn't a better performance of this opera. The whole cast is absolutely stellar.

[SDCmorg]

What a contrast, ay? Two very different kinds of actresses. They work well together. :o)

[Arashi110]

Oh yeah, that's the thing that always attracts my attention in this scene. Garanca's serious and calm face in contrast to Kasarova's very expressive one. The same's with Sesto's & Annio's characters.

[olympicfreak678]

I love this little duet! I stays in your head ALL DAY!! It's amazing. But, Mozart was good at that. VERY GOOD. What a genius. Nobody else could write this WHILE THEY ARE DYING.

[ligiamonteiro0]

they are both excellent in this duettino...

[Herrotic]

Direct access : 0:50

[cazonetta]

Too true! Genius!

[cazonetta]

Yeah, but that's what's being done to all the classics (the harpsichord *does* seem out of place in a modern corporate building, but oh well). Setting operas in contemporary times can be interesting. Some done this way are funny, others weird and/or awful, others rather decent or quite good. Sometimes it's just the way it's acted, which might or might not distract the ear away from the background music.

[cleareyedwolf]

AGREED!!

[lovezyah67]

it's so weird that it's modern peoples over a harpsacord....

[Weillfanatic]

And of course, Garanca's since gone on to make a hugely convincing Sesto. SUCH a convincing actress!

[rbmezzo]

¡Me encanta este dúo! Garanca y Kasarova son dos grandes cantantes.