IDOMENEO
Category
Opera
Country
Germany
Run Dates
Nov 24, 2024 ~ In repertoire
NOW
Venue
Run Time
180 minutes
Run Dates
2024.11.24 ~ In repertoire
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Premiere
About the show
Fear of death is a poor guide: On his return from Troy, Idomeneo swears to the god Poseidon that he will sacrifice the first person he encounters – it is his son Idamante. Idamante is in love with the Trojan captive Ilia, which sets a fateful chain of events in motion. Mozart’s “dramma per musica“, premiered in 1781, depicts a world caught between a cruel, archaic logic of sacrifice and a political new beginning. In the end, Idomeneo abdicates, and the next generation takes over. But how sustainable is this new beginning really?
Details
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dramma per musica in three acts
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco
Musikalische Leitung Nicholas Carter
Director | Bastian Kraft
Set Designer | Peter Baur
Costume Designer | Jelena Miletić
Video | Sophie Lux
Lighting Designer | Gerrit Jurda
Chorus Master | Jeremy Bines
Dramaturg | Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder
CAST
Idomeneo | Atalla Ayan
Idamante | Ida Ränzlöv
Ilia | Claudia Muschio
Elettra | Diana Haller
Arbace | Charles Sy
Stimme Neptuns | Jaewoung Lee
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Staatsopernchor Stuttgart
production photo ©Matthias Baus
Where it's been performed
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Germany
Stuttgart
,Germany