IDOMENEO Vienna 2023 Institut für Gesang und Musiktheater

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante  
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   
• Libretto: Gianbattista Varesco    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, Wien, Austria, Institut für Gesang und Musiktheater  
• Recorded: May 12 & 13, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Hwapyeong Gwon, Marta Fridriksdottir, Elena Sverdiolaite, Jakob Nistler, Luis Carlos Luque, Jeongje Yeom
• Conductor: Christoph U. Meier  
• Orchestra: Webern Symphonie Orchester  
• Stage Director: Michael Sturminger  
• Stage Designer: Hans Kudlich  
• Costume Designer: Julia Münster  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: mdw Wien  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, based on a 1705 play by Crébillion père, which had been set to music by André Campra as Idoménée in 1712. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria for a court carnival. He probably chose the subject, though it may have been Mozart. The work premiered on 29 January 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.