Axur, re d'Ormus

Axur, re d'Ormus
Opera by Antonio Salieri
Page from the manuscript
LibrettistLorenzo Da Ponte
LanguageItalian
Premiere
8 January 1788 (1788-01-08)
Burgtheater, Vienna

Axur, re d'Ormus ("Axur, king of Ormus") is an operatic dramma tragicomico in five acts by Antonio Salieri. The libretto was by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Axur is the Italian version of Salieri's 1787 French-language work Tarare which had a libretto by Beaumarchais.