Tarare (Salieri)

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Operas by Antonio Salieri
Armida (1771) La fiera di Venezia (1772) Europa riconosciuta (1778) La scuola de' gelosi (1778) Der Rauchfangkehrer (1781) Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) Les Danaïdes (1784) Les Horaces (1786) Prima la musica e poi le parole (1786) Tarare (1787) Axur, re d'Ormus (1788) La cifra (1789) Palmira, regina di Persia (1795) Falstaff (1799)
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Tarare is an opera by Antonio Salieri, after a play by Beaumarchais. It was first performed in Paris on June 8, 1787. Salieri also reworked the material into an Italian version retitled Axur, re d'Ormus with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, which opened in Vienna in January 1788.

The finale of Axur appears in the 1984 film Amadeus. The film is incorrect in presenting Axur as being performed immediately after Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and before the premiere of Don Giovanni; in fact Don Giovanni appeared first, in the fall of 1787.

[edit] Roles

Cast	Voice type	Premiere, June 8, 1787^[1] (Conductor: - )
la Nature	soprano
le Génie de feu	bass
Tarare	tenor
Atar	bass
Astasie	soprano
Arthénée	bass
Altamor	bass
Urson	bass
Calpigi
Spinette	soprano
Elamir	soprano
un sacerdote	bass
uno schiavo	bass
un eunuco	bass
una pastorella	soprano
un contadino	bass