Artaxerxes
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Composed | 1762 |
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Composers | Thomas Arne |
First performance | Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom |
Languages | English |
Librettists | Thomas Arne |
Pietro Metastasio | |
1995 | |
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ID | 2989921 |
About Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes is an opera in three acts composed by Thomas Arne set to an English adaptation of Metastasio's 1729 libretto Artaserse. The first English opera seria, Artaxerxes premiered on 2 February 1762 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden and continued to be regularly performed until the late 1830s.