Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s powerful opera Idomeneo transports us to the devastating psychological and political aftermath of the legendary Trojan War. An acclaimed production by the Teatro Real, directed by Ivor Bolton and Robert Carsen, which sets the action in a bleak modern-day refugee camp.
Based on Greek mythology, the plot centres on the difficult return of the victorious Idomeneo to a Crete overwhelmed by tensions between victors and vanquished. A series of family intrigues unfolds when Idomeneo discovers that his son Idamante, on the verge of marrying the refugee Electra, is, deep down, in love with the Trojan princess Ilia.
Opera seria in three acts
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco, after the work Idoménée (1712) by Antoine Danchet, after the homonymous theatre play (1705) by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillo
Premiered at the Residenztheater in Múnich on January 29, 1781
Premiered at the Teatro Real on July 17, 2008
Revised version by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Auesperg Palace in Vienna on March 10, 1786
New production of the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen
Artistic team
Conductor I Ivor Bolton
Stage director I Robert Carsen
Set and costumes designers I Robert Carsen & Luis F. Carvalho
Lighting designers I Robert Carsen & Peter Van Praet
Choreographer I Marco Berriel
Video designer I Will Duke
Cast
Idomeneo I Eric Cutler
Idamante I David Portillo
Ilia I Anett Fritsch
Elettra I Eleonora Buratto
Arbace I Benjamin Hulett
High priest of Neptune I Oliver Johnston
The voice I Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
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