Organization

Tenor

Wook Kang

High priest of Neptune

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Séverine Maquaire

First Cretan woman

Soprano (+3)

Inna Jeskova

Second Cretan woman

Baritone (+1)

Jinhyuck Kim

First Trojan man

Tenor (+1)

Yongwoo Jung

Second Trojan man

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Guillaume Fauchère

Set designer

Alice Benazzi

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Emanuele Agliati

Costume designer

Giulia Rossena

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Héloïse Mas

Idamante

Soprano (+2)

Siobhan Stagg

Ilia

Soprano

Amanda Woodbury

Elettra

Tenor (+3)

Léo Vermot Desroches

Arbace

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Jakob Lehmann

Toby Spence

Idomeneo

Bass (+1)

Louis Morvan

The voice

Assistant Conductor

William Le Sage

Assistant Lighting Designer

Alessandro Manni

Opéra national de Lorraine

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Orchestra

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Lorenzo Ponte

Mozart composed Idomeneo, re di Creta haunted by the lyrical tragedy created by André Campra in Paris some seventy years earlier. The legend of Idomeneo is set in the ruins of the Trojan War: the King of Crete is on the winning side but is pursued by the wrath of Neptune. To save his fleet, he makes a pact with the sea god: he will sacrifice to him the first soul he meets after setting foot on land. Unfortunately, it is his son Idamante who comes to meet him: Idomeneo will have to make a choice between his son and his kingdom.

I will see the grieving ghost
wandering around me,
Proclaiming night and day:
I am innocent!
Idomeneo
In contrast to his illustrious French model, in which Idomeneo was driven mad and ended up murdering his son, Mozart offered the Munich audience a happy ending in 1781: by a strange deus ex machina, Idomeneo abdicates, leaving the throne to his son and thus appeasing the divine anger. Mozart brilliantly allows the future to thwart fate and break the cycle of past violence! But not everything is black and white: the infuriated Electra - a spurned lover - takes her vengeance to the grave and, in arias of extraordinary virtuosity, transforms evil into an obscure object of desire.

Carried away by the passion of his twenty-five years of age, Mozart put a great deal into this Idomeneo: he gave it some of his most beautiful arias, accompanied recitatives and danced divertissements that coalesce into a continuous and organic form. He provided a wealth of material that could sustain several operas. The work impresses even the most seasoned conductors and directors. We are presenting the work in a concert version semi-staged by Lorenzo Ponte, winner of the 2021 European Opera Director's Award. Under the baton of our Music Director Marta Gardolińska, he will be able to count on the energy and youthfulness of a cast featuring Atalla Ayan, Héloïse Mas, Siobhan Stagg and Amanda Woodbury.

Nancy

France

Idomeneo Mozart

Staged

Opera

Iodáilis

Mise en scène - Lorenzo Ponte Direction musicale - Jakob Lehmann   Les 29 septembre et 1er octobre 2023 à l’Opéra national de Lorraine   Orchestre…

Approved

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