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Opera on 3: Mozart - Idomeneo, re di Creta

09/01/2011

Mozart - Idomeneo, re di Creta

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Mozart - Idomeneo, re di Creta

A complete performance of Mozart's opera Idomeneo, re di Creta, K366.

A complete performance of Mozart's opera Idomeneo, re di Creta, K366. With tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson, mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter and soprano Sylvia McNair.

Idomeneo, K366

Idomeneo, at risk of drowning at sea, makes a vow to Neptune: to sacrifice, if he arrives safely on land, the first living creature he should meet. Unfortunately, when he is washed up on a Cretan beach, the first person he sees is his own son.

Idomeneo ..... Anthony Rolfe Johnson 
Idamante ..... Anne Sofie von Otter 
Ilia ..... Sylvia McNair 
Elettra ..... Hillevi Martinpelto, 
Arbace ..... Nigel Robson 

Monteverdi Choir, 
English Baroque Soloists, 
John Eliot Gardiner.

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