Mitridate, re di Ponto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
© 1999 The Decca Record Company Limited, London
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“Throughout his creative life, Mozart’s highest aspiration was to write opera, and first and foremost, opera seria. Mitridate was his first opportunity as a fully-fledged composer to realize this goal, working with professional singers in a major theater in Italy, the undisputed operatic center of Europe, and to experience the new currents and trends expected by singers and a demanding Italian public – and all at the tender age of fourteen. (…)”
Harrison James Wignall
Distribution
- Christophe Rousset, Direction
- Giuseppe Sabbatini, Mitridate, King of Pontus
- Natalie Dessay, Aspasia, betrothed to Mitridate
- Cecilia Bartoli, Sifare, son of Mitridate
- Brian Asawa, Farnace, elder son of Mitridate
- Sandrine Piau, Ismene, daughter of the King of Parthia
- Juan Diego Flórez, Marzio, Roman tribune
- Hélène Le Corre, Arbate, governor of Nymphaea
- Les Talens Lyriques
Co-produced with Jean-Pierre Brossmann for Opéra National de Lyon
With the support of Fondation d’entreprise France Télécom
3 CDs Decca / LC0171
Recorded in May 1998 in Vevey (Switzerland)
Released in 1999