Word: idomeneo
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...Mozart's money, Don Giovanni and Idomeneo, Rè di Creta were the two best operas he ever wrote. Few have ever doubted that Don Giovanni was his best. Few have ever heard Idomeneo. Last week, at Massachusetts' Berkshire Festival, an audience heard Idomeneo in one of its few performances in 166 years, its first ever in the U.S. Though few would be willing to switch their bets from Don Giovanni, most agreed that Idomeneo was well worth hearing...
Buffeted by Storms. Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was 24. He was already a mature and original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
Alumni will have an out-of-season opportunity to sing Crimson football songs--and of course. "Fair Harvard"--and will be entertained by such unusual pieces as Mozart's Chorus from "Idomeneo" and choruses from Gay's "Beggars' Opera" at the Glee Club's Yard Concert this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Mozart's German Dances and the Idomeneo Overture by Erich Kleiber and the Berlin Philharmonic (Brunswick, 2 records, $1 each) - A neat, facile performance by the conductor recently found worthy of a re-engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony...