Il re pastore (Gluck)

Il re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 8 December 1756 at the Burgtheater, Vienna.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast
Alessandro, King of Macedonia tenor Pietro Mezzo
Aminta, a shepherd, rightful heir to Sidon soprano castrato Ferdinando Mazzanti
Elisa, a noble nymph of Phoenicia, of the family of Cadmus soprano Catarina Gabrielli
Tamiri, a fugitive princess, daughter of the deposed tyrant Stratone soprano Francesca Gabrielli
Agenore, a Sidonian nobleman tenor Paolo Bareggi

Sources

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