Ifigenia in Tauride (Jommelli)

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Niccolò Jommelli

Ifigenia in Tauride is an opera (opera seria) in three acts by Niccolò Jommelli set to a libretto by the Mannheim court poet Mattia Verazi.[2] It premiered on 30 May 1771 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples to celebrate the name day of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. The story is based on Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides.

Roles

Roles, voice type, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast, 30 May 1771[3]
Ifigenia, priestess of Diana soprano Maria Anna de Amicis-Buonsollazzi
Oreste, Ifigenia's brother soprano castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti
Tauris
 tenor Arcangelo Cortoni
Pilade, Oreste's friend soprano castrato Tommaso Galeazzi
Tomiri
, hereditary princess of Tauris		 soprano Teresa Mignoni
Merodate, king of Sarmati contralto castrato Pietro Santi

References

  1. JSTOR 900398
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  2. ^ Verazi's libretto had previously been used for Gian Francesco de Majo's opera of the same name which premiered in Mannheim in 1764.[1]
  3. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Ifigenia in Tauride, 30 May 1771". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

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