Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Latin: Amadeus) Mozart – as he was baptised – was born on January 27, 1756, the last of seven children but only the second to survive. He died, probably ...
Idomeneo is Mozart's greatest opera seria and his first dramatic masterpiece, yet for almost two centuries, between its premiere in Munich in 1781 and the 1950s, it was hardly performed at all. It was ...