Idomeneo (1982)

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Kirk Browning

Genre

music

Country

United States

Runtime

3h 01m

Rated

G

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a filmed performance of Mozart's opera Idomeneo, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in 1982. It tells the story of a king who makes a fateful vow to a sea god.

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What happens

Idomeneo is a 181-minute television film of the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1781 opera Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and performed by a cast headed by John Alexander, Hildegard Behrens, Ileana Cotrubaș, Luciano Pavarotti and Frederica von Stade under the direction of James Levine. It was recorded live on 6 November 1982, and telecast live in the United States by the Public Broadcasting Service series Live from the Metropolitan Opera. It has been released on VHS video cassette, Laserdisc and DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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