Who composed the music for the opera Idomeneo?
Music of the Shadow Hearts series a famous aria from the opera "Idomeneo" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, working it into the game's environment due to its dark tone. The chorus work included the use of Tuvan throat singing for some tracks including "Dream Catcher" and "Great Ghost Dance". The game's ending theme "Spread My Wings" was composed by Hirota, and written and sung by Takehara Tomoaki. A 2CD soundtrack album, "Shadow Hearts: From the New World Original Soundtrack", was released by Team Entertainment on August 24, 2005. The album received positive reviews from music critics. The music for "Koudelka" was composed by Kikuta, who had previously
Idomeneo a tenor. The British premiere was given by the amateur Glasgow Grand Opera Society in 1934. The first performance in the United States was produced by Boris Goldovsky at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood during the summer of 1947. Today "Idomeneo" is part of the standard operatic repertoire. There are several recordings of it (see below), and it is regularly performed. In 2006 there was a controversy over the cancelling of a 2003 production directed by Hans Neuenfels at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (see 2006 Idomeneo controversy). The approach of the 150th anniversary of "Idomeneo"'s premiere placed some major