Ilia: Wretched, wretched me! / I am all alone / Now that the Greeks have topped / My father Priam and my brothers / Yet I do quite fancy Idamante / Though that is a complete non-starter / As he is a ...

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The key event that drives the plot in “Idomeneo” is a ruler making a promise that he is reluctant to fulfill, which leads to disaster. The situation sounds contemporary but the opera takes place ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1781 masterpiece “Idomeneo,” his early ...

San Francisco Opera will present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Idomeneo from June 14–25 as part of its 2025 Summer Season at the War Memorial Opera House. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads ...

Fearing an eruption of religious fury, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper this week canceled a production of Mozart’s 1781 opera “Idomeneo” for its depiction of the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed. The move ...

Amadeus Mozart’s opera, “Idomeneo,” will be the Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast at the Breckenridge Colorado Mountain College on Saturday. Music director emeritus James Levine conducts an ...

"Idomeneo," the first mature flowering of the young Mozart's operatic genius, represents a struggle between the opposing forces of stodgy grandeur and youthful energy. They fought it out keenly in the ...

These are the sounds that captured Lindy Hume’s imagination when she was watching some footage of the wild Tasmanian coast and of an albatross colony on an unpopulated island. So, even though Idomeneo ...

Take the central relationship. To appease Neptune, a king must sacrifice the first human being he sees on landing in Crete, which happens to be his own son. But Kušej’s Idomeneo is not the one of ...

BERLIN — After facing weeks of criticism for bowing to radical Islam, the German Opera company in Berlin announced Friday that it would stage a Mozart production that includes a scene showing the ...