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Mozart - Idomeneo (2004) [DVD9 NTSC]
# Actors: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
# Directors: Trevor Nunn
# Format: Classical, NTSC
# Language English
# Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Spanish
# Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
# Aspect Ratio: 4:3
# Number of discs: 1
# Studio: Warner Music Vision
# DVD Release Date: 6 Sep 2004
# Run Time: 185 minutes
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Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneo, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by AndrÈ Campra as IdomÈnÈe in 1712. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria for a court carnival. He probably chose the subject, though it might have been Mozart.
The libretto clearly draws its inspiration from Metastasio and its overall layout, not to mention the type of character development which Metastasio had developed and mostly from the highly poetic language used in the various numbers and the secco and stromentato recitatives. The style of the choruses, marches, and ballets was very French, and the shipwreck scene towards the end of Act I is almost identical to the structure and dramatic working-out of a similar scene in Gluck's IphigÈnie en Tauride. The sacrifice and oracle scenes are similar to Gluck's IphigÈnie en Aulide and Alceste.
Kurt Kramer has suggested that Varesco was familiar with Calzabigi and therefore the work of Gluck, especially the latter's Alceste; much of what we see in Varesco's most dramatic passages is the latest French style, mediated by Calzabigi. It is thanks to Mozart, though, that this mixture of French styles (apart from a few choruses) moves away from Gluck and France and returns to its more Italian (opera seria) roots; the singers were all trained in the classical Italian style, after all, and the recitatives are all classically Italian.
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