La clemenza di Tito | |
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Opera by W. A. Mozart | |
![]() The composer, drawing by Doris Stock, 1789 | |
Translation | The Clemency of Titus |
Librettist | Caterino Mazzolà |
Language | Italian |
Based on | libretto by Pietro Metastasio |
Premiere | 6 September 1791 |
La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart began the work while he was finishing Die Zauberflöte, the last of his principal operas. La clemenza di Tito premiered on 6 September 1791 at the Estates Theatre in Prague.