At the Opera

Host Sean Bianco brings you a full-length opera featuring great voices from the past and present followed by “Opera Potpourri.”

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At The Opera, Mozart: Idomeneo, May 5, 2018

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Idomeneo is an Italian language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor to produce the opera. The work premiered on January 29, 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.

Cast:

Idomeneo – Francisco Araiza

Idamante – Susanne Mentzer

Ilia – Barbara Hendricks

Sir Colin Davis – conductor

Philips CD - 1991

Playlist

8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.	Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo BUY Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor Naxos 8550240
8:07 p.m.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo BUY Bayerischen Rundfunks; Sir Colin Davis, conductor Francisco Araiza