![]() Berenice and the Romans relent, and Farnace is restored to his throne. Tamiri’s mother Berenice also proves an implacable enemy, demanding her grandson’s life in revenge for her own husband’s death, killed by Farnace’s father. Tamiri, filled with horror, takes the sword, but cannot bring herself to kill her child instead, she hides him in the royal mausoleum. Fearing that his family will become Roman slaves, Farnace orders his wife to plunge his sword into the heart of their son, then into her own. ![]() The opera begins with Farnace already defeated – by Pompey. Lucchini’s libretto is only loosely inspired by fact. ![]() Caesar swiftly defeated him, uttering the famous words: Veni, vidi, vici. In the civil wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey, he supported neither, but invaded neighbouring territories. 97–47 BC) was king of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea, and son of that same Mithridates who features in one of Mozart’s early operas. The work is Shakespearean, even Euripidean, in its its penetrating depiction of grief and loss juxtaposed with comedy its noble emotions (love and virtue) vying with revenge and its strong female characters. War sets mother against daughter and father against son in Vivaldi’s opera of vanquished kings, battles, tombs, and vengeance. Our first post in four months! Put it down to 2020.
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