First performance 26 December 1820 Lyricist Luigi Romanelli | Composer Johann Simon Mayr Librettist Luigi Romanelli | |
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Similar Ginevra di Scozia, I Mori di Valenza, Elena da Feltre, Medea in Corinto, Adelasia ed Aleramo | ||
Fedra is an opera (melodramma serio) in two acts composed by Simon Mayr to an Italian-language libretto by Luigi Romanelli based on Racine's play Phèdre.
It premiered on 26 December 1820 at La Scala in Milan with Teresa Belloc-Giorgi in the title role. The German premiere of the opera took place at the Staatstheater Braunschweig on 30 March 2008, 188 years after its first performance.
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