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 ...

“Idomeneo” is an opera of singular power, one that doesn’t get staged nearly as often as it should. Mozart’s 1781 breakout hit—the work that established him as an opera composer of undeniable ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts an extraordinary ensemble in Idomeneo, Mozart’s early masterpiece of love and vengeance following the Trojan War on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Mozart’s “Idomeneo” can be a tough sell for contemporary audiences, its mythological underpinnings, far-fetched turns of plot and leisurely pace testing our ever-shortening attention spans. But the ...

Mozart's greatest opera? Idomeneo demands that sort of defence if it is not to fall victim to the nit-picking from which it still tends to suffer. It certainly needs the best of performances, which ...