Axur, re d'Ormus
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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 Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
[edit] Performance history
Axur premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 8 January 1788, the title role being sung by Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer.
[edit] Discography
The Overture has been recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) conducted by Michael Dittrich, on Naxos Records.