Axur, re d'Ormus | |
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Opera by Antonio Salieri | |
Librettist | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 8 January 1788 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.