Name: Idomeneo
Start: 2019-02-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

Admin

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Eric Cutler

Idomeneo

Jeremy Ovenden

Countertenor

David Portillo

Idamante

Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani

Soprano

Anett Fritsch

Ilia

Sabina Puértolas

Eleonora Buratto

Elettra

Hulkar Sabirova

Benjamin Hulett

Arbace

Krystian Adam

Oliver Johnston

High priest of Neptune

Bass

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

The voice

Conductor

Ivor Bolton

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Luis F. Carvalho

Costume designer

Petra Reinhardt

Video designer

Will Duke

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Choreographer

Marco Berriel

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real de Madrid

Others

Coro Intermezzo

Orchestra

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

After ten years of Trojan War, Idomeneo finally returns home victorious. Some of his troops have already returned and brought with them Trojan prisoners, including Ilia, daughter of the late King Priam. Upon his return from the war, Agamemnon, another victorious Greek king, is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Egisto. Elettra's brother Orestes has avenged her father's death by killing both her mother and her lover. Elettra, an orphan like Ilia, has taken refuge in Crete, where she has fallen in love with Idomeneo's son, Idamante, who has been ruling in the absence of his father.

Idomeneo, king of Crete
Dramma per musica in trois actes, K 366, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco after 'Idoménée' by Antoine Danchet
Premiered in Munich, Residenztheater, January 29, 1781

Recorded at Teatro Real | Madrid
Directed by: Francois Roussillon
Duration: 02:49

Idomeneo Mozart

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Production booklet

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