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
