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| Mozart: Idomeneo / Busch, Lewis, Simoneau, Jurinac, Et Al | |||||
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Release Date: 09/24/2002 Label: Symposium Catalog #: 1274/75 Spars Code: AAD Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer: Léopold Simoneau, Sena Jurinac, Birgit Nilsson, Alfred Poell, Alexander Young, Bruce Dargavel, Richard Lewis Conductor: Fritz Busch Orchestra/Ensemble: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
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| Idomeneo, K. 366 was first performed in Munich in 1781 with a castrato in the title role. Mozart made various changes to suit the tenor voice for a private performance in Vienna in 1786. Idomeneo has never been performed much nor has it ever been popular. This is sad because it contains some beautiful music, wonderfully scored. Don Giovanni and Le Nozz di Figaro may be more readily assimilable to modern ears, but to dismiss the work as belonging to an operatic pre-history of virtuosic castrati is misguided. Alfred Einstein felt this to be "one of those works that even a genius of the highest rank, like Mozart, could write only once in his life". For a performance in 1931 in Vienna, the opera was completely re-worked. Wolf-Ferrari did the same thing for a performance in Munich in the same year. It was performed in English in Glasgow in 1934, but the performance offered here is the first professional production of the opera in England. Here, this historic performance is virtually complete, but for a substantial portion of Electra's last aria. | |||||
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Idomeneo, K 366 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||
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Performer:
Léopold Simoneau (Tenor),
Sena Jurinac (Soprano),
Birgit Nilsson (Soprano),
Alfred Poell (Baritone), Alexander Young (Tenor), Bruce Dargavel (Baritone), Richard Lewis (Tenor) Conductor: Fritz Busch Orchestra/Ensemble: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra Period: Classical Written: 1781; Munich, Germany |
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Date of Recording: 06/30/1951 Venue: Live Glyndebourne Festival, Sussex, England Length: 138 Minutes 18 Secs. |
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