Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/26/2019 - 02/03/2019
12:00 am
Location
Pittsburgh High School For The Creative & Performing Arts
Categories
The words and music of the radical opera “Idomeneo” has been brilliantly reorganized and distilled into 80 compelling minutes.
Written by prolific Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), “Idomeneo” was first performed in 1781. The story is set on the Mediterranean island of Crete just after the Trojan War (circa 1190 BCE). A shipwreck brings Princess Illia of the hated enemy Troy to Crete. Furious, King Idomeneo threatens to kill the “traitor” who rescued her — unaware that the rescuer is his own son, Prince Idamante. Complicating the situation even more, Illia and Idamante are drawn together romantically, arousing the jealousy of another princess who has her eyes on Idamente.
Presented by the Pittsburgh Opera, the eighth oldest opera company in the United States.
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