Idomeneo, rè di Creta

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Magdalena Kozena as Idamante in a dress rehearsal for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Idomeneo; the production was part of the 2006 Salzburg (Austria) Festival.

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Idomeneo, rè di Creta

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In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Salzburg and Munich
In Idomeneo, rè di Creta Mozart depicted serious, heroic emotion with a richness unparalleled elsewhere in his operas. Though influenced by Christoph Gluck and by Niccolò Piccinni and others, it is not a “reform opera”: it includes plain recitative and bravura singing, but always to a…
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In opera: Viennese masters
This was Idomeneo (1781; libretto by Giambattista Varesco in imitation of Metastasio). In this work, Mozart combined the conventions of opera seria with characteristics that reveal the influence of Gluck and the tragédie lyrique. As a result, Idomeneo ranks as the supreme example of opera seria in…
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