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The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
If you can read Idomeneo as a drama about Mozart and his father, you can read it as a drama about Graham Vick and the Arts Council. Of the organisations to be threatened with having their funding axed last year, Birmingham Opera Company seemed the least deserving, having consistently married artistic excellence with community involvement and audience development. They appealed and were heard, much...
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Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Plenty more information has come out since my last post about Birmingham Opera Company’s forthcoming production of Mozart’s King Idomeneo. Firstly, the first performance will be on 12 August but there’s a free dress rehearsal taking place on Sunday 10 August at 7pm. If you’d like to go down to that then email boxoffice@birminghamopera.org.uk to reserve [...]
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Idomeneo, rè di Creta: Dramma per musica in tre atti (K. 366).
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The Bayerische Staatsoper, based in three spectacular houses where Mozart, Wagner and many other composers premiered their works, presents over 300 annual performances to a discerning public.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Idomeneo, rè di Creta: Dramma per musica in tre atti (K. 366).
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Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
The Birmingham Opera Company, which was faced with cuts to its funding not so long ago, will return to the stage next month with a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. As it says on the website: We don’t have an opera house and we don’t work in conventional theatres. We conjure our theatres out of spaces used for [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Dramatic rescues are central to both Mozart’s “Idomeneo” and the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich.
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Dalhousie News (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Opera Nova Scotia stages Mozart's first operatic masterpiece Idomeneo , set in ancient Crete.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
When Toronto’s Opera Atelier asked her to sing Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo Measha Brueggergosman hesitated.
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Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
I am not sure either I or SillyWife had enormous expectations as we went yesterday to watch a Mozart opera unknown to both of us, "Idomeneo" , as put on by Opera Atelier . We are determined Opera Atelier fans, though, after several years, simply because they can produce such stunning and unexpected excellence at times. This production had got a lot of local press, largely because they had engaged Measha...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
In an all-new production of Mozart's first great, serious opera, Idomeneo , Opera Atelier has scored one of its greatest triumphs.
