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Idomeneo - Premiere
Dramma per musica in three acts
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had not put on an opera for five years when he received a long-awaited commission to compose in 1781. The drama to be set to music: a tragedy in the French style, which, despite its problematic transformation into a magnificent opera seria for the Munich carnival, ignited the composer's full creative power. Returning to Crete from the Trojan War, King Idomeneo and his fleet are caught in a violent storm. In return for his rescue, he promises the god Neptune that he will sacrifice the first person he meets on land, not knowing that this will be his own son. Mozart used this story for an anti-war opera in which he formulated his own "good news" for the first time: the victory of humanism through the all-conquering power of love. With his music he transcended the rigid forms of the libretto imposed on him, and even more: like a blueprint, all the stories, characters and feelings that would make his later operas immortal are already laid out here. 18 years after the Theater an der Wien reopened in 2006 as the city's third opera house with this masterpiece, the new production directed by its artistic director marks the return of the MusikTheater an der Wien to its renovated original building.
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had not put on an opera for five years when he received a long-awaited commission to compose in 1781. The drama to be set to music: a tragedy in the French style, which, despite its problematic transformation into a magnificent opera seria for the Munich carnival, ignited the composer's full creative power. Returning to Crete from the Trojan War, King Idomeneo and his fleet are caught in a violent storm. In return for his rescue, he promises the god Neptune that he will sacrifice the first person he meets on land, not knowing that this will be his own son. Mozart used this story for an anti-war opera in which he formulated his own "good news" for the first time: the victory of humanism through the all-conquering power of love. With his music he transcended the rigid forms of the libretto imposed on him, and even more: like a blueprint, all the stories, characters and feelings that would make his later operas immortal are already laid out here. 18 years after the Theater an der Wien reopened in 2006 as the city's third opera house with this masterpiece, the new production directed by its artistic director marks the return of the MusikTheater an der Wien to its renovated original building.
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
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