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Having considered Idomeneo historically and in terms of genre, and then of its standing throughout its two centuries of existence, and having tapped some of its potential for deep critical analysis, we are still a long way from exhausting what this opera has to offer. I shall conclude by attempting to tie up a few musical, dramatic, and generic loose ends, and making a few suggestions for an interpretation, which are not intended to be prescriptive (either for critical response or for staging), but which attempt to reconcile a contemporary and a modern view.

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