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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.
Title page of the original libretto. Idoménée (English: Idomeneus) is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. Idoménée was first performed on 12 January 1712 by the Académie royale de musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
The words to the aria have been thought to be by Lorenzo Da Ponte, [1] but they are in either case (K. 490 and K. 505), with the exception of the short recitative, exactly those of Giambattista Varesco's original Idomeneo libretto of 1781. Mozart entered the work on 27 December 1786 into his catalogue with the remark: "for Mlle Storace and me".
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.
Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante ("Idomeneo, King of Crete, or Ilia and Idamante", K. 366, Munich, 1781), with a libretto by Giambattista Varesco (1735-1805), after a French text by Antoine Danchet (1671-1748) which had been set to music by André Campra (1660-1744) as Idoménée (Paris, 1712)
L'Idomeneo: dramma serio: 2 acts: Gaetano Sertor after Antoine Danchet: spring 1794: Florence, Palla a Corda Ero e Leandro: dramma: 2 acts 13 August 1794: Naples, Teatro di San Carlo: L'inganno in trionfo: intermezzo: 1 act 1794: Florence, Palla a Corda Una in bene e una in male (also performed as Le astuzie di Patacca) dramma giocoso: 2 acts ...
Gluck used a libretto originally set by Lully for this French work, his favourite among his own operas. [35] 1779 Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck). Gluck's "last and perhaps greatest masterpiece". [36] 1781 Idomeneo (Mozart). Usually thought of as Mozart's first mature opera, Idomeneo was composed after a lengthy break from the stage. [37]
Idomeneo was based on Antoine Danchet's libretto for the earlier opera Idoménée. Varesco translated Danchet's French-language libretto into Italian and rewrote a considerable portion with new text under Mozart's supervision.. [1]