An opera of raw, dramatic intensity, it features some of Mozart’s most sublime, audacious and inventive music.
Idomeneo premiered on 29 January 1781, just two days after Mozart’s twenty-fifth birthday, and was unprecedented in its gripping dramatic sweep and unerring exploration of emotion and truth. Add to this an anguished love triangle between Idamante, captive Trojan princess Ilia and Greek princess Elettra and what ensues is a terrible struggle between fatherly devotion, staying true to a promise and young love: a conflict which has repercussions for everyone. Inevitably, the first living being he encounters is his own child, his son, Idamante. Returning from the siege of Troy, Idomeneo is saved from drowning at sea by the god Neptune, and vows in return to sacrifice the first person he sees when he reaches home.
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