Antonio Poli Headlines Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s ‘Idomeneo’
By Francisco Salazar(Credit: Michele Monasta)
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is set to open its 2026 season with a production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo.”
The opera will open the first season curated by Superintendent Elisabetta Riva and Artistic Director Pierangelo Conte an will open on Jan. 24, 2026 and will run through Feb. 1, 2026. The opening night performance will be live broadcast on Rai Radio3.
The production will be directed by Mariano Bauduin, who has decided to abandon linear time and look through a kaleidoscope that alters, distorts and transforms every image, as in the pictorial projects of the Metaphysical movement. In a statement he said, “I decided to approach the myth of ‘Idomeneo’ by imagining what Mozart might have preferred to do had he lived in the era of De Chirico and Savinio, who repeatedly explored visual narratives of classical myth, transforming the very idea of Neoclassicism into something that retained only the unconscious essence of what is both new and classical.”
Roberto Abbado conducts a cast that includes tenor Antonio Poli in the title role, soprano Mariangela Sicilia as Ilia, mezzo-soprano Francesca Di Sauro as Idamante, soprano Salome Jicia as Elettra, Leonardo Cortellazzi as Arbace, Xin Zhang as the High Priest of Neptune, and Luca Park as the Voice of Neptune’s Oracle.
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