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	The Mozart Project: K. 366
		Indeed, Idomeneo has nearly succumbed to the wrath of Neptune, but avoids a final reckoning by making a terrible vow: He will sacrifice the first man he meets if Neptune will spare him.
		Idomeneo is cast ashore and, as it turns out, the first man he meets is Idamante.
		Idomeneo raises his weapon for the killing blow, but Ilia intervenes and offers herself in Idamante's place.
	www.mozartproject.org /compositions/k_366__.html (770 words)

	Synopsis of Idomeneo - The Metropolitan Opera
		Idomeneo is horrified that he must kill his son, and at first he does not reveal his identity.
		Idomeneo begins to suspect that she is in love with Idamante, and it dawns on him that all three of them will be victims of the gods (âFuor del marâ).
		Idomeneo confesses that it was he who has caused the godâs displeasure by breaking his vow, but he will not sacrifice an innocent victim.
	www.metoperafamily.org /metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=168 (991 words)

	Idomeneo/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		Omdat het is twintig jaar geleden is dat hij zijn vader voor het laatst gezien heeft herkennen geen van beiden elkaar.
		Idomeneo besluit dat Idamante Elettra zal begeleiden naar het hof van haar vader in Argos.
		Ilia antwoordt zegt hem dat zij in Kreta een nieuw vaderland heeft gevonden en in Idomeneo een nieuwe vader Aria.
	www.operaweetjes.nl /Opera's/Idomeneo.htm (1536 words)

	Idomeneo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		Idomeneo is generally classified as opera seria (as contrasted with opera buffa), a form characterized by heroic emotion and dramatic purpose.
		Idomeneo, the king of Crete, returning victorious from war with Troy, encounters a storm that threatens his fleet.
		Elettra, suffering from an ultimate case of unrequited love, asks, "Must the daughter of a king see this prisoner aspire....?" Idomeneo sings of the conflict between his love for his son and his need to protect his son from the consequences of his vow to Neptune.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Idomeneo.html (781 words)

	Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
		The recits are most often accompanied by the orchestra, and, in addition, something new often happens musically at the end of an aria to introduce the recit, or the recit may carry forward and transform some of the material in the aria.
		Idomeneo's confidant Arbace needed to sing convincing recitative; La Voce (the Voice of Fate) needed to be a voice with a deep timbre; and the High Priest another forceful tenor, but in a cameo appearance.
		Idomeneo needs the ballet and the exhilaration of movement to contrast with the agonizing story of a father forced to sacrifice his son.
	www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu /blog/idomeneo (2216 words)

	Michelle Malkin: OperaRage: Idomeneo and Islam
		In re the current Idomeneo affair: It's just another example of an ego-driven director trying to turn an 18th-century work into something that it is not by infecting the stage sets & direction with his own politico-artistic embellishments.
		I'm somewhat familiar with Idomeneo (Mozart's great opera seria for the Mannheim court, which premiered in January 1781) and I can't find anywhere in the libretto or original stage directions reference to severed heads of paradigmatic figures as part of the scenery.
		Idomeneo should be presented as Mozart and the Mannheimers (and his father Leopold) intended.
	www.michellemalkin.com /archives/005995.htm (1285 words)

	IDOMENEO
		Idomeneo, King of Crete, returning in triumph from the Trojan War, encounters a storm en route and is shipwrecked, but saved by Neptune, god of the sea.
		In return, Idomeneo pledges to offer the first person he encounters on shore as a human sacrifice to the god—but the first person he meets happens to be his son Idamante.
		A retainer advises Idomeneo to send Idamante, who is in love with Ilia, the captive Queen of Troy, to accompany Elettra, daughter of the king of Argos, back to her homeland.
	www.nntt.jac.go.jp /english/season/s306e/s306e.html (343 words)

	Idomeneo (1983/I) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is very telling that both Pavarotti and Domingo sing the EASY version of Idomeneo's great aria "Fuor del Mar", in which the ill-fated king laments that Neptune is exacting a most horrible price for his being saved from a monstrous tempest at sea.
		Idomeneo has promised to sacrifice the first person he meets on shore in order to be saved....
		Having said all that, I have to say that Frederica von Stade is a wonderful Idamante, the hapless son of Idomeneo (I normally prefer this role to be sung by a second tenor).
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0252531 (602 words)

	Deutsche Oper casts Mozart opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As written by Mozart and librettist Giambattista Varesco, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, is a plaything of the gods, condemned to sacrifice his son for the peace of his nation - and saved only through the grace of the gods who inexplicably relent.
		Then they are beheaded by Idomeneo, who pulls their heads from a bloody sack before he himself expires as the final curtain falls.
		Her voice was occasionally off-center, although she rose to the occasion in Act II, Scene 2, contributing to the lovely farewell trio with Idamante and Idomeneo.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/charlotte/entertainment/music/16272706.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp (616 words)

	Noticias » \"Cancelan ópera IDOMENEO de Mozart por reavivar la libertad de expresión religiosa\" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Idomeneo, rey de Creta, ha participado en la guerra de Troya y al final del conflicto ha enviado a su patria a algunos prisioneros troyanos, incluida la princesa Ilia, hija de Priamo, el último rey de Troya.
		Idomeneo comunica su terrible secreto a su confidente Arbace su amigo, quien le aconseja que envíe a Idamante lejos de allí para evitar que se cumpla el destino.
		Idomeneo no ha dicho nada aún a su hijo acerca del voto que hizo a Neptuno y, sin ninguna explicación, le dice que se marche y que no regrese jamás.
	www.noticias.com /articulo/30-09-2006/emil-domec/cancelan-opera-idomeneo-mozart-reavivar-libertad-expresion-religiosa-574i.html (1632 words)

	Idomeneo
		Cretan troops disembarking from Idomeneo's ship are met by their wives, and all sing the praises of Neptune, who will be honored with a sacrifice.
		Ilia then greets Idomeneo, whose kind words move her to declare that since she has lost everything, he will be her father and Crete her country.
		As Idomeneo fears new reprisals from Neptune, Idamante enters in sacrificial robes, saying he at last understands his father's dilemma and is ready to die.
	www.classic99.com /oindom.htm (670 words)

	Verschobene Oper: Idomeneo - mit 3 Monaten und 30 Minuten Verspätung - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
		Idomeneo - mit 3 Monaten und 30 Minuten Verspätung
		Noch eine Stunde bis Idomeneo beginnen soll und der Mann mit dem Schild ist der einzige, der gegen die Aufführung vor der Deutschen Oper protestiert.
		"Idomeneo kannte doch vorher niemand", sagt eine Frau, die vor der Oper wartet.
	www.spiegel.de /kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,455338,00.html (900 words)

	Michelle Malkin: OperaRage: Idomeneo and Islam
		In re the current Idomeneo affair: It's just another example of an ego-driven director trying to turn an 18th-century work into something that it is not by infecting the stage sets & direction with his own politico-artistic embellishments.
		I'm somewhat familiar with Idomeneo (Mozart's great opera seria for the Mannheim court, which premiered in January 1781) and I can't find anywhere in the libretto or original stage directions reference to severed heads of paradigmatic figures as part of the scenery.
		Idomeneo should be presented as Mozart and the Mannheimers (and his father Leopold) intended.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/005995.htm (1285 words)

	classical music - andante - idomeneo at glyndebourne
		The ingredients of Idomeneo's success in Sussex were the devotion of conductor Fritz Busch, a great cast (including Sena Jurinac, Richard Lewis, LÃ©opold Simoneau and Birgit Nilsson) and, of course, a glorious score which had been, at that time, unheard and unstaged.
		Sellars, in his usual fashion, updated the opera to the present: in rough terms, Idomeneo became George W. Bush, his confidant Arbace was Donald Rumsfeld, the Greeks were American GIs and the Trojan women wore burqas, presumably as citizens of a recently defeated Islamic state.
		But rather than translating the emotions and themes of Idomeneo into modern times, as he has done brilliantly in his best work, Sellars chose simply to underline any bits of the text that could be construed to have "relevance" to current world events.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21570&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (1264 words)

	Amazon.com: Mozart - Idomeneo / Domingo, Bartoli, Grant Murphy, Vaness, Hampson, Terfel, Lopardo, MET, Levine: Music: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Idomeneo is a challenging role, it has high tessitura and acrobatics that Mozart wrote for the original castrati in the part.
		I have a feeling Pavoratti sang Idomeneo only to stray from his routine Verdi and Puccini Italian repertoire and not to be outdone by Domingo.
		Domingo is an excellent Idomeneo because he has the voice that sounds like a king, or a man of authority.
	www.amazon.com /Mozart-Idomeneo-Domingo-Bartoli-Hampson/dp/B000001GR8 (3122 words)

	Variety.com - Deutsche Oper cancels 'Idomeneo'
		In the final act of director Hans Neuenfels' controversial version, which was to premiere Nov. 5 at the Deutsche Oper, Idomeneo carries the heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed onstage in a show of defiance and revolt against the tyranny of the gods and their demands for sacrifice.
		Harms, who has not ruled out staging "Idomeneo" at a later date, said her decision to cancel the production may now offer the chance for a much needed discourse on understanding between Islam and Christianity.
		The opera controversy topped the agenda at a summit between German government officials and Muslim leaders held in Berlin on Sept. 27 to launch a two-year campaign to improve the integration of the country's 3 million Muslims.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117950882?categoryid=15&cs=1 (708 words)

	Now Showing in Berlin: Muhammad Beheaded - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
		Fearing a reaction similar to the violent protests that followed the publication of editorial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper last year, the Deutsche Opera in Berlin is installing airport-style scanners and otherwise girding for a possible backlash as it prepares to stage a modern interpretation of Mozart’s “Idomeneo”.
		Whether this interpretation of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” is faithful to it’s composer’s intent is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
		Idomeneo is set more than a millenium before Jesus and Mohammed, so the alteration is anachronistic, but more importantly, pointless.
	thelede.blogs.nytimes.com /2006/12/18/now-showing-in-berlin-muhammad-beheaded (7314 words)

	Opera -- in its original form -- has nothing offensive in it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mozart's "Idomeneo," the work at the center of the blowup, has nothing to do with Islam, nothing to do with Muhammad and very little to do with severed heads.
		It's a heroic drama set in ancient Crete in the aftermath of the Trojan War, and it focuses on Idomeneo's fateful oath to reward the gods by sacrificing the first person he encounters on reaching home (Bible readers will recognize this as a cousin to the story of Jephtha from the Book of Judges).
		Still, "Idomeneo" is a peculiar flashpoint for this kind of controversy, because it requires an interventionist stage director before it can give offense.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/30/DDG61LF5GB1.DTL&type=printable (752 words)

	Mozart - Idomeneo / Luciano Pavarotti, Hildegard Behrens, Frederica von Stade, Ileana Cotrubas, John Alexander, James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Idomeneo was finally commissioned for Munich by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, and premiered in Munich in 1781.
		Idomeneo is a true tragic hero: literally buffeted by fate in a sea-storm, he is placed in the untenable position of saving himself by promising Neptune he would sacrifice the first living creature he met upon returning home to Crete.
		Idomeneo, less than thrilled by this random encounter, reacts even more coolly after recognizing his son, now grown.
	www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=B000E5KOJI&field-keywords=Corigliano&schMod=books&type=&sb=s (1344 words)

	Friends of the Salzburg Festival
		"Idomeneo, king of Crete, was one of those celebrated heroes who dealt the deathblow to the famous Troy," writes Varesco in the foreword to his Italian libretto.
		Through this tragic basic conflict, the story of Idomeneo has similarities with the Agamemnon-Iphigenie subject which Gluck made into an opera, and even more so with the story of Jephtha, on which Handel's oratorio of the same name is based.
		He raised the orchestra to the secret heroes of his opera and unfolded the entire magnificent sound, intensity of expression and virtuosity of the court orchestra to a musical and dramatic panorama.
	www.festspielfreunde.at /english/frames/199912/ef_199912_05.htm (1031 words)

	idomeneo
		Finalmente, llega a la playa Idomeneo, despide a los presentes y revela que había hecho voto a Neptuno, si se salvaba del naufragio, de sacrificarle la primera persona con que se encontrase.
		Idomeneo comunica su terrible secreto a Arbaces su amigo, quien le aconseja que envíe a Idamante lejos de allí para evitar que se cumpla el destino; Idomeneo entonces decide que su hijo escolte a Electra en su vuelta a Grecia.
		Cuando ella se marcha, Idomeneo se da cuenta de que Ilia ama a su hijo; se lamenta entonces porque todo parece señalar que Neptuno no sólo reclama como víctima a Idamante, sino también a Ilia y al propio Idomeneo.
	perso.wanadoo.es /rftorregrosa/idomeneo.htm (755 words)

	Watching Idomeneo in Berlin. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
		One of the sets featured a series of fl doors, which King Idomeneo, dressed in the garb of an Italian playboy, opened and closed as he sang.
		The main plot is a Faust-like story of a deal Idomeneo does with Poseidon, saving his own life at the cost of sacrificing the first person he meets on land, which turns out to be his son.
		In the last moments of the opera, when everyone else had left the stage, Idomeneo plunked each of the four gods' severed, bloody heads on a pedestal, before expiring himself, with a dramatic, blood-curdling roar.
	www.slate.com /id/2155815/device/html40/?nav=ais (1199 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Comment is free \| In praise of ... Idomeneo
		Hard on the heels of the row over the Pope's comments about Islam, a Berlin opera house has triggered another debate about where the boundaries between free speech and multicultural sensitivities should lie.
		But the cancellation is also a dangerous act of self-censorship at odds with the principles of liberal democracy and artistic expression, as chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday.
		Amid the turmoil, it is worth stressing that none of this is the responsibility of Idomeneo's composer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/story/0,,1882483,00.html (255 words)

	Idomeneo Review
		Never having seen a staged performance of Idomeneo I was a bit at a loss as to what I could expect from this heroic opera in 3 acts.
		Unfortunately Poseidon will hound Idomeneo for his son’s life, since he was the first individual he laid eyes on after surviving his shipwreck.
		Story and style are something very hard to appreciate for modern audiences, but the music itself is the true carrier of the emotional turmoil that translate to anyone who has experienced a serious loss of some sort.
	www.echoworld.com /B01/B0105/B0105-2.HTM (519 words)

	Amazon.com: Mozart: Idomeneo, Re di Creta (KV 366): Music: Ian Bostridge,Lorraine Hunt Lieberson,Lisa Milne,Barbara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Idomeneo was Mozart's first "great" opera, composed when he was just 25.
		'Idomeneo' is usually classified as an 'opera seria', a form characterized by heroic emotion and dramatic purpose.
		Ian Bostridge in the role of Idomeneo is magnificent, both vocally and dramatically.
	www.amazon.com /Mozart-Idomeneo-Re-Creta-366/dp/B000064691 (2240 words)

	Berlin Operası’nın oto sansürüne tepki
		‘Idomeneo’ operasının bir sahnesinde, Girit Kralı Idomeneo, bir çuvaldan Buda, Hz.
		Berlin’deki ünlü Alman Operası’nın, radikal dinci saldırı olabileceği gerekçesiyle Mozart’ın Idomeneo operasını sahnelemekten vazgeçmesi, tepkilere neden oldu.
		Mozart’ın 1781 yılında bestelediği Idomeneo operasının bir sahnesinde, Girit Kralı Idomeneo, elindeki kanlı çuvaldan Buda, Hz.
	www.ntvmsnbc.com /news/386303.asp (588 words)

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