Ifigenia in Tauride (Jommelli)

Niccolò Jommelli

Ifigenia in Tauride is an opera (opera seria) in three acts by Niccolò Jommelli set to a libretto by the Mannheim court poet Mattia Verazi.[2] It premiered on 30 May 1771 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples to celebrate the name day of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. The story is based on Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides.

  1. ^ Cassaro, James P. (September 1998). "Review: Gian Francesco de Majo: Ifigenia in Tauride by Paul Cornelison". Notes. 55 (1): 203–206. doi:10.2307/900398. JSTOR 900398.
  2. ^ Verazi's libretto had previously been used for Gian Francesco de Majo's opera of the same name which premiered in Mannheim in 1764.[1]