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Ipermestra (Gluck)

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Ipermestra (Hypermnestra) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an opera seria in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 21 November 1744 at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice. Ipermestra is the first of Gluck's operas to survive complete.

Roles

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Role Voice type Premiere cast, 21 November 1744
Danao tenor Ottavio Albuzio
Ipermestra contralto Vittoria Tesi-Tramontini
Linceo soprano castrato Lorenzo Ghirardi
Elpinice contralto Girolama Giacometti
Plestene soprano Rosalia Andreides
Adrasto soprano castrato Giuseppe Perini

References

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  • The Viking Opera Guide, ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993), p. 371.
  • Alfred Wotquenne Catalogue thématique des œuvres de Chr. W. v. Gluck (Georg Olms Verlag, 1967)