The music of Mozart is nothing short of fun, imaginative, and extraordinary. The playful and brisk way that Mozart has composed most of his music’s so indicative of the classical period of music. This influence transcends to his operas, in particular La Clemenza di Tito. The various vocal and instrumental acts are really fast and they cause you to do everything faster, even to type faster. When you listen to baroque and early classical music you will end up doing all your work faster than the average. This for a fact is true. When listening to all the movements, the typing speed was greatly increased. The whole play is a spellbinding spectacle. The soprano and alto of the opera both are in top form throughout with their melismas in check. The acts have this typical bouncy rhythm that is all too typical in Mozart. But it is really cheerful to the ear with its drama.
One favorite act is Act 1 Scene 1. All of it is expertly dramatic and leads to a great culmination at the end of the act. The piece is originally an opera seria or serious opera. The music is very poignant in that he wanted a castrato for the lead role. He soon changed his mind on this. This opera was written at the time that Mozart was most busy in the last year of his life. There was a point where the people that approached him about his music schedule and doing the opera and reasoned that he was the most reasonable person or composer for the job of composing after running through arrangements from some of the forty different composers that set the libretto’s text. All of the acts in full are only two—fairly short for an opera, but given the time restraints, it proved to be a great work commemorating the coronation of Leopold. Listen to the whole opera. It will help entertain and relax you.
