“Idomeneo” (KV 366), first performed on January 29, 1781 in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich, is Mozart's second opera for the Munich court after the opera buffa “La finta giardiniera” from 1775. The operatic material (“Idoménée” by Antoine Danchet) and its transformation into a libretto was fixed in a written instruction, the unfortunately lost “plan”, as it is called in the correspondence between father and son.
The Bärenreiter piano reduction contains the lines and changes made on the occasion of the premiere in Munich and the Vienna revision in 1786.
Suggestions for cadences or for embellishing fermatas in the vocal parts are given as footnotes.
