Tarare (opera)

Tarare
Tragédie lyrique by Antonio Salieri
Adolphe Nourrit in the title role, in Paris 1823
LibrettistPierre Beaumarchais
LanguageFrench
Premiere
8 June 1787 (1787-06-08)
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris

Tarare is an opéra (tragédie lyrique) composed by Antonio Salieri to a French libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 8 June 1787. Salieri also reworked the material into an Italian version retitled Axur, re d'Ormus with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, which opened in Vienna in January 1788.

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