Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)
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For the opera by André Campra, see Iphigénie en Tauride (Campra). For the opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, see Iphigénie en Tauride.
Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigeneia in Tauris) is a tragédie lyrique in four acts by Niccolò Piccinni, which was first performed on 23 January 1781 by the Académie royale de musique (the Paris Opéra) in the second Salle du Palais-Royal. The opera's libretto, by Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil, is based on a play of the same name by Claude Guimond de La Touche, although the ultimate source was the tragedy Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides.
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Iphigénie en Tauride | |
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Tragédie lyrique by Niccolò Piccinni | |
Librettist | Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil |
Language | French |
Based on | Play by Claude Guimond de La Touche, after Iphigeneia in Tauris |
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