
Theatre· Stuttgart
Idomeneo, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This event is the final performance of the season of Mozart's 1781 opera *Idomeneo* at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, directed by Bastian Kraft and conducted by Nicholas Carter. The opera tells the tragic story of a king who vows to sacrifice the first person he encounters after surviving a storm at sea—only to discover it is his own son—exploring themes of archaic sacrifice