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Tarare (opera)

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.[1] 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.

Tarare

French

8 June 1787 (1787-06-08)

Discography[edit]

Cyrile Dubois, Tarare and ombre de Tarare, Karine Deshayes, Astasie and ombre de Astasie, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Atar and ombre d'Atar, Judith van Wanroij, La Nature and Spinette, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Talens Lyriques, conducted by Christophe Rousset. Aparté 2019.

Original libretto: Tarare, Opéra en cinq actes, avec un prologue; Représenté, pour la première fois, sur le Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, le vendredi 8 Juin 1787, Paris: Delormel, 1787 (accessible for free online at )

books.google

Georges d'Heylli & Fernand de Marescot (editors), Théâtre complet de Beaumarchais. Réimpression des éd. princeps, avec les variantes des ms originaux ..., Paris: Académie des bibliophiles, 1869–1871, IV, pp. 1–171 (accessible for free online at )

Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Francesco Blanchetti, Tarare, in Piero Gelli and Filippo Poletti (editors), Dizionario dell'opera 2008, Milan, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007, pp. 1259–1260,  978-88-6073-184-5 (reproduced online at Opera Manager)

ISBN

John A. Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 385–403

University of North Texas Music Library

Score

: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Tarare (Salieri)

John A. Rice, (liner notes in French, German, and English for Christophe Rousset's CD)

"Salieri, Beaumarchais, and Tarare"