Mitridate, Re Di Ponto

Archive Listings for Mitridate, Re Di Ponto

T1379192346 (WNO09) Company Welsh National Opera.
2 Jun 09	Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff :: V1984858935 listing details L01897831490
27 May 09	Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham :: V145 listing details L150832925
T1600823367 (ROH05) Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Running time 3 hours 45 mins.Corporate Sponsor The Friends of Covent Garden. Producer Royal Opera House. Director Graham Vick. Design Paul Brown. Conductor Richard Hickox. Lighting Nick Chelton. Other Ron Howell (movement). Performer Bruce Ford. itridate). Performer Alexandra Kurzak (Aspasia). Performer David Daniels (Farnace). Performer Andrea Rost (Sifare). Performer Susan Gritton (Ismene). Performer Colin Lee (Marzio). Performer Katie Van Kooten (Arbate).
5 Jul 05 to 17 Jul 05	Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L66926257

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Opera or Operetta :: Dramma per musica in three acts (1770). Mitridate's two sons are ideologically and emotionally opposed. Aspasia, is the intended bride of the king and the love of both his sons, although she returns only the affections of Sifare. The foreign princess Ismene who, after being spurned by Farnace, marries him in the opera's final reconciliation as the king faces death.

Music	Mozart
Lyrics	Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-santi (after Giuseppe Parini's translation of Jean Racine's Mithridate)