Organization

Conductor

Benjamin Bayl

Costume designer

Anna Cordingley

Associate Designer

Jacob Battista

Singer

Countertenor

Catherine Carby

Idamante

Soprano

Olivia Cranwell

Elettra

Opera Australia

Victorian Opera

Lighting designer

Verity Hampson

Stage director

Lindy Hume

Set designer

Michael Yeargan

Video designer

David Bergman

Tenor

Steve Davislim

Idomeneo

Kathryn Radcliffe

Ilia

Michael Dimovski

Arbace

James Egglestone

High priest of Neptune

Bass

Simon Meadows

The voice

Cinematography

Catherine Pettman

Orchestra

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

Italian

Melbourne

Australia

Palais Theatre

Public

Private

English

Approved

Idomeneo Mozart

Death, politics and roaring crescendos, Idomeneo is a new opera that will crash like a wave on Melbourne directed by Emma Muir-Smith and conducted by Benjamin Bayl.

In this epic production, the mythical King of Crete is faced with an impossible decision: to sacrifice his son in payment of a debt to Poseidon or exile him across the seas. The King will be joined by a vengeful, jealous performance of Elettra and accompanied by the virtuosic playing of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. 

Presented in the grand majesty of the Palais Theatre, this full staging of one of opera’s great jewels will sparkle on the St Kilda foreshore as if it were Poseidon’s bay.


CREATIVE TEAM
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist Abbé Giambattista Varesco

Conductor Benjamin Bayl
Director Lindy Hume
Set Designer Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer Anna Cordingley
Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
Video Designer David Bergman
Cinematography Catherine Pettman
Set Design Consultant Richard Roberts

CAST
Idomeneo Steve Davislim
Idamante Catherine Carby
Ilia Kathryn Radcliffe
Elettra Olivia Cranwell
Arbace Michael Dimovski
High Priest of Neptune James Egglestone
Voice of Oracle (Neptune) Simon Meadows

CHORUS
Jonathon Bam, Elizabeth Barrow, Paul Batey, Paul Biencourt, Kirilie Blythman, Kerrie Bolton, Emily Burke, Robert Campbell, Alastair Cooper-Golec, Stephen Coutts, Rebecca Crabtree, Irving Dekterev, Shakira Dugan, Shania Eliassen, Olivia Federow-Yemm, Fraser Findlay, Matan Franco, Lyndon Green, Teresa Ingrilli, Jerzy Kozlowski, Alister Lamont, Kieran Macfarlane, Jane Magao, Ursula Paez, Alexsander Pokryshevsky, Henry Shaw, Syrah Torii, Peter Tregear, Emily Uhlrich, Nicole Wallace, Lynlee Williams, Hannah Kostros.

ORCHESTRA
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer