![]() The opera is dominated by the god Neptune who is a powerful presence throughout, even though he never appears on stage. ![]() Matthew Polenzani is cast as Idomeneo, the Cretan king, who helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the war to end all wars. This revival of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 1982 production was seen at The Met in New York in 2017, when it was again conducted by James Levine, who had contributed so much to its original success. Idomeneo, written when Mozart was 24 and premièred in Munich in 1781, three days after his 25 th birthday, is said to have been the favourite of all his operas.
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