How do we live together in an age of conflict How do you heal a divided and angry people In their 2017 production of Mozarts La clemenza di Tito Peter Sellars and Teodor Currentzis examine these questions through the story of a warrioremperor who brings peace to his divided land and pardons his own wouldbe assassins Written under a time crunch legend has it that it was written in only 18 days although it is likely an exaggeration during the last year of Mozarts life the opera is based on a libretto written more than half a century earlier by Pietro Metastasio It was commissioned for the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia and received its first public performance at the Estates Theatre in Prague on September 6 1791
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