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Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Alessandro De Marchi

Stage director

Stage director (+5)

David McVicar

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Vicki Mortimer

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Gabrielle Dalton

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Paule Constable

Choreographer

Colm Seery

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Tenor (+14)

Rolando Villazón

Idomeneo

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Emily D'Angelo

Idamante

Soprano (+1)

Serena Sáenz

Ilia

Soprano (+2)

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

Elettra

Tenor (+2)

Florian Hoffmann

High priest of Neptune

Bass (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

The voice

Soprano (+3)

Serafina Starke

Trojaner

Sandra Laagus

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Chorus

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Tenor (+1)

Junho Hwang

Child vocalist (+2)

Jonah Hoskins

Arbace

First Cretan woman

Second Cretan woman

A storm rages off the coast of Crete, forcing King Idomeneo, who is returning from the Trojan War, to make an ill-fated promise to Neptune: if the enraged god lets him reach land safely, he will sacrifice the first man he meets. When Idomeneo arrives on the beach, he meets his son Idamante. But the unforgiving world of the gods seems determined to exact the king’s promise.

The storm evoked so vividly by Mozart’s music rages not only in nature but also in all his characters. Be it father and son, be it the two foreign princesses Ilia and Elettra, who hope for better days after the traumatic war – they are all at the mercy of natural forces and emotion, which the score by the then 25-year-old Mozart strikingly illustrates. »Idomeneo«, which completely revived the genre of the opera seria, opens the Staatsoper series of Mozart’s mature operas. Written in 1781 as a commissioned work for the outstanding ensemble of the Munich Residenztheater, he drew on his full musical range for this extensive and ambitious work. Mozart did not fulfil his hope of finding a new position and leaving Salzburg with this piece as his calling card. But his sheer ambition resulted in an exceptional score with challenging arias, individual vignettes, a virtuoso orchestral part and some great choral scenes, which are among the most impressive in Mozart’s oeuvre.

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Berlin

Germany

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Opera

Keerthi Raj

German

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IDOMENEO  Spielzeit 2022/23 | Season 2022/23Musik von |  Music by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG | MUSICAL DIRECTION Simon RattleINSZENIERUNG | ...

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