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He patterned his opera after the style of Christoph Willibald Gluck, the successful composer of eight French operas.

Mozart conducted the world premiere of Idomeneo in Munich in 1781. Eternally experimental, he produced a Viennese equivalent of vaudeville, The Magic Flute, when he was 35. Musical numbers follow a pattern of recitatives which advance the dramatic action, followed by arias that reflect characters’ feelings, with lengthy interjections by the chorus.Īfter this, the composer turned his attention to comic adventures like The Abduction from the Seraglio and then to socially-relevant dramas like The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Unlike the later Mozart operas, Idomeneo was written in the opera seria style of an earlier age, where the subjects are noble and the movements are formal. It is undeniably a great achievement by a 25-year-old composer in the early stage of his career.