What would we say of a 14-year-old opera composer today? Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto was a big success at its premiere in Milan in 1770 and the opera’s youthful ebullience is still engaging, as ...

Mozart's early masterpiece Mitridate, Re di Ponto, recorded this month at the Royal Opera House in London. Martin Handley introduces Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto, recorded this month at the Royal ...

Christophe Rousset conducts an impressive cast in Graham Vick’s colourful, energised account of Mozart’s early opera It’s 26 years since Mitridate first stamped self-consciously downstage, all ...

Nobody ever talks about Graham Vick’s 26-year-old production of Mitridate, re di Ponto – it seemed to have sunk without trace – but Covent Garden’s revival is a reminder of how stunningly original it ...

This is the time of year when the country-house opera companies spark into life. Two nights ago, it was Opera Holland Park; now it’s Garsington Opera. And what an unexpected success story the latter ...

We are so obsessed with the image of Mozart the child prodigy that it can be easy to forget how marvellous some of his early works are. The conclusion that the music of his youth must be inferior is ...

If Mitridate had been Mozart’s only opera, he’d be no more than a footnote in operatic history, albeit a startling one: he was just 14 years old when he wrote the nearly four hours of music that the ...

The revival of Graham Vick’s 1991 production leaves one almost incredulous at the precocious genius as one virtuoso aria follows another over the course of nearly four hours. The boy composer’s first ...

15:51, Tue, Jun 27, 2017 Updated: 16:04, Tue, Jun 27, 2017 I suppose they didn’t have GCSEs at the time, but there must have been something more appropriate for a 14-year-old boy to be doing. We ...

A rarity by the 14-year-old Mozart impresses in Tim Albery’s staging Mozart’s Mitridate, King of Pontus, was written in 1770 for the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan – the predecessor of the modern La ...