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Podcast: Classical Music Discoveries
Episode: 14238 Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, K. 366
Description: Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, K. 366 is an Italian language opera seria 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 André Campra as Idoménée 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 work premiered on 29 January 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.
Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu
CMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus of Paris in Orleans
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