Composer Niccolò Jommelli | Language Italian | |
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First performance Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy Characters Iphigenia, Orestes, Pylades, Thoas, Diana Similar Iphigénie en Tauride, La Nitteti, Ipermestra, Achille in Sciro, Catone in Utica | ||
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. It premiered on 30 May 1771 at the Teatro 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.
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