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Work: Idomeneo, re di Creta

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ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
PeriodClassical
LibrettistGiambattista Varesco
Year1781
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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PragueIdomeneo, re di CretaNew production

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Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta
Konrad Junghänel; Calixto Bieito; Prague State Opera; Anna-Sofia Kirsch; Paula Keiller; Reinhard Traub; Prague State Opera Orchestra

LondonThe Mozartists / Ian Page / Marianne Crebassa

Wigmore Hall
Haydn, Mozart
Ian Page; The Mozartists; Marianne Crebassa

BrusselsIdomeneo, re di Creta

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Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta
Enrico Onofri; Calixto Bieito; La Monnaie | De Munt; Anna-Sofia Kirsch; Paula Klein; Reinhard Traub; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
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Calixto Bieito’s Idomeneo runs out of time in Prague

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At the Prague State Opera, Calixto Brieito relocates Mozart's opera seria to modern times, with disastrous results. 
***11
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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents Idomeneo as a confused ballet in Geneva

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The Grand Théâtre de Genève presents a new production of Mozart’s opera seria where the focus is all on dancing and rope twirling. Nevertheless, a good cast, led by Federica Lombardi as Elettra, manages to shine through.
**111
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Hungarian State Opera goes full The Last of Us with new Idomeneo

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Hungarian State Opera presents Idomeneo for the first time in almost 50 years in a musically superb, but controversial pandemic-informed dystopian setting.
***11
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Mozart's Idomeneo: a step of evolution in Göteborg

Idomeneo is still something of a 'Cinderella' among Mozart's operas, yet Graham Vick is about to direct it for the third time. What draws him back to it?