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Tarare is an opéra composed by Antonio Salieri to a French libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on June 8, 1787.[1] 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.
| Cast | Voice type | Premiere, June 8, 1787[1][2] (Conductor: Jean-Baptiste Rey ) |
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| La nature | soprano | Alexandrine-Adelaïde Gavaudan-Joinville |
| Le génie de feu | bass | Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin "Chardiny" |
| Tarare | tenor | Étienne Lainez |
| Atar | bass | Auguste-Athanase Chéron |
| Astasie | soprano | Marie Thérèse Maillard |
| Arthénée | bass | Martin-Joseph Adrien |
| Altamort | bass | Châteaufort |
| Hurson | bass | Jean-Pierre Moreau |
| Calpigi | haute-contre | J.Rousseau |
| Spinette | soprano | Alexandrine-Adelaïde Gavaudan-Ducamel |
| Elamir | soprano | Carbonel |
| A priest | bass | Laïs Gavaudan |
| A slave | bass | Le Roux |
| A eunuch | bass | Le Roux |
| A shepherdess | soprano | Anne-Marie-Jeanne Gavaudan "l'aînée" |
| A peasant | bass | Alexis Dessaules |