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Jul 1, 2020 · “One of those works that even a first-class genius like Mozart manages only once in his lifetime.” That is how Alfred Einstein defined Idomeneo, King of Crete, Mozart’s third venture into the “opera seria” genre, demolishing its traditional boundaries to open the way to lyric drama.After Mithridate (1770) and Lucio Silla (1772), blending youthful earnestness with mature mastery ...
Sep 29, 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera revived Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 1982 production of Mozart’s Idomeneo for the second night of the new season.The late French opera director, set and costume designer courted controversy at times, but tor the first-ever production of the Mozart opera at the Met, he stuck to the book.
May 14, 2012 · Researchers have recently published a study that examines the historical implications and potential for dramatic dialogue. Mozart’s operas Idomeneo, Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni are all excellent examples. Mozart created new genres for a few operas, but his operas span every type of music available at the ...
Idomeneo. Buy Tickets. Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music Director Emeritus James Levine, who led the work’s company premiere in 1982, again on the podium. Tenor Matthew Polenzani brings both steely resolve and compassionate warmth to the title king of Crete, who is faced with ...
Apr 18, 2014 · Mozart’s first “opera” in any form was actually part of a sacred Singspiel which he composed in 1767 when he was only eleven years old, titled Die Schuldigkeit der ersten Gebots (“The Obligation of the First Commandment”). Mozart wrote the first part of this work, with Michael Haydn and Anton Adlgasser contributing the other two parts.
Teatro Real, Madrid - 2019. Ivor Bolton, Robert Carsen, Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Anett Fritsch, Eleonora Buratto, Benjamin Hulett, Oliver Johnston, Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Opus Arte - Blu-ray. With every new production, Idomeneo is proving to be one of the most exciting of Mozart's operas, and that's even when measured up against a catalogue ...
Act 1. Island of Crete, shortly after the Trojan War. Ilia, daughter of the defeated Trojan King Priam, has been taken to Crete after the war. She loves Prince Idamante, son of the Cretan King Idomeneo, but hesitates to acknowledge her love. Idamante frees the Trojan prisoners in a gesture of good will. He tells Ilia, who is rejecting his love ...
