After ten years of Trojan War, Idomeneo finally returns home victorious. Some of his troops have already returned and brought with them Trojan prisoners, including Ilia, daughter of the late King Priam. Upon his return from the war, Agamemnon, another victorious Greek king, is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Egisto. Elettra's brother Orestes has avenged her father's death by killing both her mother and her lover. Elettra, an orphan like Ilia, has taken refuge in Crete, where she has fallen in love with Idomeneo's son, Idamante, who has been ruling in the absence of his father.
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 Crébillon
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
Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
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
RELATED CONTENT
