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Livestream: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ at Munich Opera Festival
Live-streaming Saturday 24 July, 6 pm CEST, featuring sets by artist Phyllida Barlow
Production of 'Idomeneo' featuring sets by Phyllida Barlow. Photo by Wilfried Hösl © Wilfried Hösl
- 14 June 2021
Hauser & Wirth is honored to present a co-livestream event, in partnership with the world-renowned Bayerische Staatsoper and the Munich Opera Festival, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s operatic masterpiece ‘Idomeneo’. The production, featuring sets by artist Phyllida Barlow, will be free to view LIVE on hauserwirth.com Saturday 24 July at 6 pm CEST, 12 pm ET and 9 am PT.
Promotional image for 'Idomeneo' courtesy of Bayerische Staatsoper and the Munich Opera Festival
In a risky deal with the Gods, King Idomeneo returns home to Crete, after the Trojan War, where he vows to Poseidon to sacrifice the first living being he meets upon his arrival. Fate deals him a bitter blow as Idomeneo tragically encounters his son Idamantes.
This ancient story unfolds through the mastery, emotion and lyricism of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s brilliant score, with libretto by Giambattista Varesco, and is largely considered Mozart’s greatest choral opera.
Phyllida Barlow in her Studio, 2018 © Phyllida Barlow. Photo: Cat Garcia
Production of 'Idomeneo' featuring sets by Phyllida Barlow. Photo by Wilfried Hösl © Wilfried Hösl
‘Idomeneo’ by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco In Italian with English subtitles
Bayerische Staatsoper - Munich Opera Festival Livestreaming Saturday 24 July 2021 6 pm CEST; 12 pm ET; 9 am PT Prinzregententheater
Conductor: Contantinos Carydis Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Production: Antú Romero Nunes Set design by Phyllida Barlow
With Matthew Polenzani Emily D’Angelo Olga Kulchynska Hanna-Elisabeth Müller