Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito Is Full Of Feminine Wiles


Photo credit: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

“Vitellia is Joan Collins. She’s a really manipulative but powerful woman.”

Nielsen won’t be sporting enormous shoulder pads or smoking long black cigarillos like the infamous character of Alexis Colby, but she may be on to something. Vitellia is, undoubtedly, one deliciously wicked woman: passed over as a wife by Emperor Titus, she uses her feminine wiles to convince her paramour, Sesto, who is Titus’s confidant, to agree to assassinate the ruler.


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