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Created: June 24, 2003
Latest Update: June 24, 2003
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Captive from Ideomeneo; photograph by Mike Hoban.

Discussion of Mozart's First Opera, Ideomeneo

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, June 2003.
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This essay is based on a review in the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2003, by Mark Swed: "A Search for Salvation in the Mideast".

"Kapoor's set was secret, but word got out that it was shockingly gynecological." Note the set as portrayed in Mike Hoban's photograph above. See the suggestion of a vagina.

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Discussion Questions

1. What lesson does Idomeneo potentially have for the present?

   Consider the AfterWar and its effects.

2. Whats the role of gender in Idomeneo?

   Consider coping with the aftermath of death and dying in families.

3. . . . .