Mozart’s Mitridate: Al destin, che la minaccia

Aspassia’s first aria from Mozart’s first opera seria “Mitridate, re di Ponto“. Yvonne Kenny in the role of Greek princess Aspasia, the young betrothed of the king of Pontus. The Concentus Musicus Wien is conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. An excerpt from a film of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1986), available on DVD.