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Mozart's texts came from a variety of sources, and the early operas were often adaptations of existing works. The first librettist chosen by Mozart himself appears to have been Giambattista Varesco, for Idomeneo in 1781. Five years later, he began his most enduring collaboration, with Lorenzo Da Ponte, his "true phoenix".
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Premiere. 29 January 1781. ( 1781-01-29) Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich. Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, [1] K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In Milan, Mozart wrote the opera Mitridate, re di Ponto (1770), which was performed with success. This led to further opera commissions. He returned with his father twice to Milan (August–December 1771; October 1772 – March 1773) for the composition and premieres of Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772).
Emperor Joseph’s permanent music staff was full circa 1781 (including the well-known composers Antonio Salieri and Christoph Willibald Gluck) with death or resignation the only ways that a job could open up (which didn’t occur until 1788). Still, it wasn’t as though Mozart had gone completely unnoticed.
This was Idomeneo (1781; libretto by Giambattista Varesco in imitation of Metastasio). In this work, Mozart combined the conventions of opera seria with characteristics that reveal the influence of Gluck and the tragédie lyrique. As a result, Idomeneo ranks as the supreme example of opera seria in… Read More.
The libretto (words in Italian) was written by Giambattista Varesco. He based it on a French text by Antoine Danchet. In 1780 Mozart and Varesco were asked by the Elector of Bavaria to write an opera for a court carnival. Idomeneo was first performed in Munich on 29 January 1781. Mozart was only 24 years old. It was the first of his great operas.
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