Idomeneo, rè di Creta at Wiener Staatsoper

Mozart, Mozart still, still Mozart Mozart fortunately! Coming up this time: Idomeneo, re di Creta, a dramma per musica in three acts, founded January 29, 1781 Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich.

Idomeneo, King of Crete, has escaped from the wreck that promised solemnly to sacrifice to Neptune the first person coming towards him. Horror: his son Idamante. How to avoid the fulfillment of the terrible promise? In addition, two women in love competing Idamante: Ilia, his prisoner, the daughter of King Priam, and Electra, the princess of Argos. A monster will spring water, the fight Idamante, Ilia will offer himself in sacrifice. Neptune leave he bend?

What is remarkable in this opera seria Mozart, which agrees that it is a work of maturity, torn humanity of his characters, who cease to be great for icons (re ) become men, poor men, a prey to the whims of fate, the consequences of their actions, the impulses of their passions, and in the pain intensity of their decisions, in their desire to get rid of determinism, in their desire for happiness, come to give birth to a new human type, that of the Enlightenment.