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Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, [1] K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Idomeneo is a 181-minute television film of the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1781 opera Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and performed by a cast headed by John Alexander, Hildegard Behrens, Ileana Cotrubaș, Luciano Pavarotti and Frederica von Stade under the direction of James Levine.
Italian and German title pages of the original libretto of Mozart's opera, Idomeneo. A later tradition, preserved by Servius the Grammarian in a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, [12] continues the story as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.
The music of Creonte combines the traditions of Italian bel canto with Bortnyansky's individual style. It aligns with the operatic style of Mozart, bridging works like Mitridate (1770) and Idomeneo (1780). This suggests a shared influence of Italian operatic traditions on the development of both composers.
Domenico de' Panzacchi (1733 – after 1805) was an Italian operatic tenor and the first Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo re di Creta.He was born in Imola. [1] By 1780, his singing style was completely out of date, but Leopold Mozart advised his son to engage Panzacchi because he was such a good actor.
Subsequently he began using them in opera seria, first in the 1786 revival of Idomeneo, when he inserted a new aria, "Non temer, amato bene", in rondò form. In the same year he provided another one for Der Schauspieldirektor , and initially sketched (but ultimately rejected using) a rondò for Susanna's garden aria in Le nozze di Figaro .
Giuseppe Sabbatini (born 11 May 1957 in Rome, Italy) is a lyric tenor, conductor, and double-bassist.. His opera repertoire includes Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Don Giovanni, Linda di Chamounix, La favorita, L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, Dom Sébastien, I puritani, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Falstaff, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Auber's Fra ...
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli OMRI KBE (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko ddzeffiˈrɛlli]; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) [1] was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety ...