Idomeneo
- Location:
- Opernhaus Stuttgart, Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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Fear of death is a bad advisor: on his return from Troy, Idomeneo swears to the god Poseidon that he will sacrifice the first person he meets - his son Idamante. He loves the Trojan prisoner Ilia, which sets a disastrous dynamic in motion. Mozart's "dramma per musica", first performed in 1781, depicts a world between cruel, archaic sacrificial logic and a new political beginning. At the end, Idomeneo abdicates and the next generation takes over. But how sustainable is this new beginning really?
Dramma per musica in three acts
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. + II. Act: approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Intermission: approx. 25-30 min.
Act III: approx. 1 hr.