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Idomeneo, Re di Creta

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Opera in three acts Music by Mozart Libretto by GIANBATTISTA VARESCO (sung in Italian)
A South German Radio recording from this year't Schwetzingen Festival
Returning from the Trojan wars, Idomeneo vows to Neptune to sacrifice the first creature he sees, If he's safely delivered from a storm. It turns out to be his son, Idamante, who is in love with a Trojan prisoner, Ilia.
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS chorus-master
MARINUS VOORBERG
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG Act 1
8.25* Interval Reading
8.30* Idomeneo, Act 2
9.15* Interval Reading
9.20* Idomeneo, Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Gianbattista Varesco
Unknown:
Marinus Voorberg
Conducted By:
Peter Maag
Source: Radio Times

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